Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Creativity: Research, Development, and Practice summarizes scholarly research on creativity from psychology, business, education, sociology, economics, and more. The book investigates development, expression, and enhancement of creativity. Beginning with a discussion of theories of creativity, the book progresses to research on the nature/nurture debate as to what influences creativity, how creativity is related to personality, how social context may affect creativity, mental health and its relation to creativity, gender differences, and how creativity is related to and differs from invention, innovation, imagination, and adaptability.
The third edition has been thoroughly updated and includes a new chapter on psychometrics, substantial updates on the biology of creativity, and teases apart deliberate cognition from associative/intuitive cognition. The book additionally includes quotes, figures, boxed controversial issues, and biographies of creative individuals. The book serves as a comprehensive source to creativity research for scholars and libraries, and is suitable for use as a course text.
- Summarizes research in multiple domains relating to creativity
- Includes new chapter on psychometrics of creativity
- Delineates deliberate controlled cognition from associative and intuitive cognition
- Features substantial updates in biology of creativity
- Explores creativity research relating to media, business, and leadership
Synopsis
Creativity: Research, Development, and Practice, Third Edition, summarizes research on creativity from psychology, business, education, sociology, economics, and more, investigating its development, expression and enhancement. Beginning with a discussion of theories, the book progresses to research on the nature/nurture debate, what influences creativity, how creativity is related to personality, how social context may affect creativity, mental health and its relation to creativity, gender differences, and how creativity is related to, and differs from, invention, innovation, imagination and adaptability.
The third edition has been thoroughly updated, with a new chapter on psychometrics, substantial updates on the biology of creativity, and on associative/intuitive cognition.
In addition, it includes quotes, figures, boxed controversial issues, and biographies of creative individuals.
Synopsis
Creativity: Research, Development, and Practice, Third Edition, summarizes research on the development, expression, and enhancement of creativity. It draws from the full range of disciplines studying creativity, including psychology, business, education, economics, philosophy, neuroscience, and more. This volume includes exploration of research on the nature/nurture debate, what influences creativity, how creativity is related to personality, how social context may affect creativity, mental health, and its relation to creativity, gender differences, and how creativity is related to and differs from, invention, innovation, imagination, and adaptability.
The third edition has been thoroughly updated, with a new chapter on psychometrics and substantial updates on the biology and neuroscience of creativity, politics, and creative cognition. It includes quotations, graphics, boxed controversial issues, and biographical examples from unambiguously creative individuals.