Creativity Across Domains Kaufman, James C; Baer, John
2005, 20050115, 2004, 2005-01-15, 2005-01-03
eBook
Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied creative ...thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts, sciences, and communication/leadership. Each contributor explains what is known about the cognitive processes, ways of conceptualizing and solving problems, personality and motivational attributes, guiding metaphors, and work habits or styles that best characterize creative people within the domain he or she has investigated.
In addition, this book features:
*an examination of how creativity is similar and different in diverse domains;
*chapters written by an expert on creativity in the domain about which he or she is writing;
*a chapter on creativity in psychology which examines patterns of performance leading to creative eminence in different areas of psychology; and
*a final chapter proposing a new theory of creativity--the Amusement Park Theoretical Model.
This book appeals to creativity researchers and students of creativity; cognitive, education, social, and developmental psychologists; and educated laypeople interested in exploring their own creativity.
Contents: J.C. Kaufman, J. Baer, Introduction: How People Think, Work, and Act Creatively in Diverse Domains. J. Piirto, The Creative Process in Poets. S.K. Perry, Flow and the Art of Fiction. R.K. Sawyer, Acting. E. Zimmerman, Should Creativity Be a Visual Arts Orphan? J.I. Morris, Creativity and Dance: A Call for Balance. M. Leman, Musical Creativity Research. G.J. Feist, Domain-Specific Creativity in the Physical Sciences. D.K. Simonton, Creativity in Psychology: On Becoming and Being a Great Psychologist. D. Saunders, P. Thagard, Creativity in Computer Science. D. Cropley, A. Cropley, Engineering Creativity: A Systems Concept of Functional Creativity. R.M. Milgram, N.L. Livne, Creativity as a General and a Domain-Specific Ability: The Domain of Mathematics as an Exemplar. M.D. Mumford, J.M. Strange, G.M. Scott, B.P. Gaddis, Creative Problem-Solving Skills in Leadership: Direction, Actions, and Reactions. J.R. Averill, Emotions as Mediators and as Products of Creative Activity. C.M. Ford, D.M. Sullivan, Selective Retention Processes That Create Tensions Between Novelty and Value in Business Domains. M. Basadur, Management: Synchronizing Different Kinds of Creativity. D. Ambrose, Creativity in Teaching: Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions. R.J. Sternberg, The Domain Generality Versus Specificity Debate: How Should It Be Posed? J.A. Plucker, The (Relatively) Generalist View of Creativity. J. Baer, J.C. Kaufman, Whence Creativity? Overlapping and Dual-Aspect Skills and Traits. J.C. Kaufman, J. Baer, The Amusement Park Theory of Creativity.
Historical records show that culture can increase exponentially in time, e.g., in number of poems, musical works, scientific discoveries. We model how human capacities for creativity and cultural ...transmission may make such an increase possible, suggesting that: (1) creativity played a major role at the origin of human culture and for its accumulation throughout history, because cultural transmission cannot, on its own, generate exponentially increasing amounts of culture; (2) exponential increase in amount of culture can only occur if creativity is positively influenced by culture. The evolution of cultural transmission is often considered the main genetic bottleneck for the origin of culture, because natural selection cannot favor cultural transmission without any culture to transmit. Our models suggest that an increase in individual creativity may have been the first step toward human culture, because in a population of creative individuals there may be enough non-genetic information to favor the evolution of cultural transmission.
Creativity is like an iceberg - the resulting new idea, or novel solution is only 10% of the effort. The other 90% is the complex interplay of thinking skills and strategies, personal and ...motivational properties that activate these skills and strategies, and the social and organizational factors of the environment that influence the creative process. Creativity in Engineering focuses on the Process, Person, Product, and Place to understand when and why creativity happens in the engineering environment and how it can be further encouraged. Special Features: * Applies findings in creativity research to the engineering arena * Defines engineering creativity and differentiates it from innovation * Discusses personality and motivational factors that impact creativity * Clarifies the role of creativity in the design process * Details the impact of thinking skills and strategies in creativity * Identifies the role the organization and environment plays in encouraging creativity * Discusses the 4P's of Creativity: Person, Product, Process, and Place * Provides tactics and tools that will help users foster creativity in engineering environments * Identifies how creativity results in innovative new solutions to problems * Applies creativity research and knowledge to the engineering space
The Dark Side of Creativity Cropley, David H; Cropley, Arthur J; Kaufman, James C ...
Cambridge University Press,
06/2010
eBook, Book
With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such ...as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect society from its effects.
The article deals with the problem of creativity and creativeness in contemporary humanities and social sciences. In the first part it is argued that creativity and creativeness are organic to each ...other, also that creativity is paving the way towards creativeness. In the second part it is shown that creativity and creativeness is a major propeller of progress in science because only creative scientific thinking and creative skills generate a variety of inventions and innovations. In the third part it is maintained that in contemporary humanities and social sciences creativity and creativeness unfold as intensively and focusedly as in other fields of science (for example, in physical and technological sciences), infuencing culture and society, their development and future perspectives.
In 1947, the author founded the Library of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Presses Universitaires de France, and forty-two volumes have appeared, by French and foreign authors, nine of them ...works or reprints of articles by Freud. It was here that he produced his precise and important The Language of Psychoanalysis (1968), which has been translated into many languages. The Works of Daniel Lagache English edition in one volume is a selection of those texts that are most representative of the psychoanalytic thinking of the author. It is a thinking that is rich in epistemology, ensuring that psychoanalysis is set in relationship to behaviorism and clarifies its status as an "exact science". It deserves to provoke a lively response from the English speaking public.
Soziales Imaginäres und Stadtforschung Schwenk, Jochen
ÖZS. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie,
11/2019, Letnik:
44, Številka:
Suppl 2
Journal Article
Zusammenfassung
Der nachfolgende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Imaginären der Stadt. Mit Hilfe der von Cornelius Castoriadis vorgelegten Theorie des Imaginären wird seiner repräsentativen, ...schöpferischen und politischen Dimension nachgespürt. Eine besondere Betonung erfährt dabei die politische Dimension. Insgesamt unterbreitet der Text den Vorschlag, die verschiedenen in der Stadtforschung vorhandenen Konzeptionen des Imaginären als Aspekte desselben Gegenstandes – des Imaginären der Stadt – zu verstehen.
The Artful Mind Turner, Mark
2006, 2006-10-26, 2006-11-02
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All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, “irrepressibly artful minds”. Cognitively modern minds have produced a staggering ...list of behavioral singularities—science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art—that seems to indicate a mysterious and unexplained discontinuity between us and all other living things. This brute fact gives rise to some tantalizing questions: How did the artful mind emerge? What are the basic mental operations that make art possible for us now, and how do they operate? These are the questions that occupy the chapters in this book. These chapters bring to bear a range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives on the relationship between art (broadly conceived), the mind, and the brain. Together they hope to provide directions for a new field of research that can play a significant role in answering the great riddle of human singularity.
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