Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse

366 Pages·2004·25.63 MB·English

by  James C. Kaufman

CREATIVITY ACROSS DOMAINS
Faces of the Muse
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CREATIVITY ACROSS DOMAINS

Faces of the Muse
Edited by
James C. Kaufman
California State University at San Bernardino
John Baer
Rider University
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS
2005 Mahwah, New Jersey London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse
edited by James C. Kaufman and John Baer
ISBN 0-8058-4657-3 (cloth : alk. paper).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This little book is for
Allison Kaufman
My wife and best friend
And the girl I adore
I'll love you forever
And ever and ever
And ever and ever
And fifteen days more
-JCK
To SKB, who makes everything possible,
and HASB, who sees possibility everywhere.
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Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: How People Think, Work, and Act
Creatively in Diverse Domains xiii
James C. Kaufman and John Baer
1 The Creative Process in Poets 1
Jane Piirto
2 Flow and the Art of Fiction 23
Susan K. Perry
3 Acting 41
R. Keith Sawyer
4 Should Creativity Be a Visual Arts Orphan? 59
Enid Zimmerman
5 Creativity and Dance—A Call for Balance 81
John I. Morris
6 Musical Creativity Research 103
Marc Leman
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viii CONTENTS
7 Domain-Specific Creativity in the Physical Sciences 123
Gregory J. Feist
8 Creativity in Psychology: On Becoming and Being
a Great Psychologist 139
Dean Keith Simonton
9 Creativity in Computer Science 153
Daniel Saunders and Paul Thagard
10 Engineering Creativity: A Systems Concept
of Functional Creativity 169
David Cropley and Arthur Cropley
11 Creativity as a General and a Domain-Specific Ability:
The Domain of Mathematics as an Exemplar 187
Roberta M. Milgram and Nava L. Livne
12 Creative Problem-Solving Skills in Leadership:
Direction, Actions, and Reactions 205
Michael D. Mumford, Jill M. Strange, Gina Marie Scott,
and Blaine P. Gaddis
13 Emotions as Mediators and as Products
of Creative Activity 225
James R. Averill
14 Selective Retention Processes That Create Tensions
Between Novelty and Value in Business Domains 245
Cameron M. Ford and Diane M. Sullivan
15 Management: Synchronizing Different Kinds
of Creativity 261
Min Basadur
16 Creativity in Teaching: Essential Knowledge, Skills,
and Dispositions 281
Don Ambrose
17 The Domain Generality Versus Specificity Debate:
How Should It Be Posed? 299
Robert J. Sternberg