The Nature of Human Creativity

416 Pages·2018·2.168 MB·English

by  Robert J. Sternberg, James C. Kaufman

THE NATURE OF HUMAN CREATIVITY
Thisbookprovidesanoverviewoftheapproachesofleadingscholarstounderstand-
ing the nature of creativity, its measurement, its investigation, its development, and
itsimportancetosociety.Theauthorsarethe24psychologicalscientistswhoaremost
frequentlycitedinthefourmajortextbooksoncreativity,andtheycanthusbecon-
sidered among the most eminent living scholars in the field. Each author discusses
howtheydefinecreativity,thekindsofquestionstheyhaveaddressed,theoriesthey
have proposed, and a description of their research and the most interesting empiri-
cal results it has produced. The chapters represent a wide range of substantive and
methodologicalemphases,includingpsychometric,cognitive,expertise-based,devel-
opmental,neuropsychological,cultural,systems,andgroup-differenceapproaches.The
NatureofHumanCreativitybringstogetheranincrediblediversityofviewpoints,help-
ingstudentsandresearcherstoseethepointsofconsensusaswellasthedifferencesin
contemporaryperspectives.
robert j. sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University
andHonoraryProfessorofPsychologyattheUniversityofHeidelberg.Formerly,he
wasIBMProfessorofPsychologyandEducationatYaleUniversity.HisPhDisfrom
Stanford,andhehasthirteenhonorarydoctorates.HehaswontheGrawemeyerAward
inpsychologyandboththeWilliamJamesandJamesMcKeenCattellAwardsfrom
theAssociationforPsychologicalScienceaswellasmorethantwodozenothermajor
awards and is a member of the National Academy of Education and the American
AcademyofArtsandSciences.HeisapastpresidentoftheAmericanPsychological
AssociationandtheFederationofAssociationsinBehavioralandBrainSciences.He
isamongthemostcitedpsychologistsintheworld,withover142,000citationsandan
h-indexof185.
james c. kaufman is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of
Connecticut. He is the author or editor of more than 300 papers and 40 books,
including Creativity 101 (2nd ed., 2016) and The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
(withRobertJ.Sternberg;2010).Heco-createdthe“TheFour-CModelofCreativity”
(with Ronald A. Beghetto) and conducted the study that spawned the Sylvia Plath
effect. He is a past president of Division 10 (Society for Psychology of Aesthetics,
Creativity,andtheArts)oftheAmericanPsychologicalAssociation(APA)andisthe
presidentoftheAmericanCreativityAssociation.ProfessorKaufmanhaswonmany
awards, including Mensa’s research award, the Torrance Award from the National
Association for Gifted Children, and APA’s Berlyne, Arnheim, and Farnsworth
Awards.Hecofoundedtwomajorjournals(PsychologyofAesthetics,Creativity,andthe
ArtsandPsychologyofPopularMediaCulture)andcurrentlyco-editstheInternational
JournalofCreativityandProblemSolving.
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THE NATURE OF HUMAN
CREATIVITY
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ROBERT J. STERNBERG AND JAMES C. KAUFMAN
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Contents
ListofFigures pageviii
ListofTables ix
ListofContributors x
Foreword xii
MihalyiCsikszentmihalyi
Preface xviii
1 CreativityandtheLaborofLove 1
TeresaM.Amabile
2 TheTroublewith“Creativity” 16
JohnBaer
3 DoWeChooseOurScholarlyPathsorDoTheyChooseUs?
MyReflectionsonExploringtheNatureofCreativityin
EducationalSettings 32
RonaldA.Beghetto
4 BringingCreativitydowntoEarth:ALongLaborLost? 47
ArthurCropley
5 InSearchoftheCreativePersonality 63
GregoryJ.Feist
6 FromFascinationtoResearch:ProgressandProblemsin
CreativityResearch 77
AdrianFurnham
7 Creativity:TheViewfromBigCandtheIntroduction
ofTinyc 94
HowardGardnerandEmilyWeinstein
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8 INeverIntendedtoBecomeaResearchPsychologist 110
BethA.Hennessey
9 WhatCreativityCanBe,andWhatCreativityCanDo 125
JamesC.Kaufman
10 CreativityacrosstheSevenCs 134
ToddLubart
11 CreativeThinkingintheRealWorld:ProcessinginContext 147
MichaelD.Mumford,RobertMartin,SamanthaElliott,and
TristanMcIntosh
12 ItAllMakesSenseNowThatIThinkaboutIt:A
Quarter-CenturyofStudyingCreativity 166
JonathanA.Plucker
13 CreativeCognitionattheIndividualandTeamLevels:What
HappensbeforeandafterIdeaGeneration 184
RoniReiter-Palmon
14 TheMalleabilityofCreativity:ACareerinHelpingStudents
DiscoverandNurtureTheirCreativity 209
JosephS.Renzulli
15 EverydayCreativity:ChallengesforSelfandWorld–Six
Questions 224
RuthRichardsandTerriGoslin-Jones
16 AuthenticCreativity:Mechanisms,Definitions,and
EmpiricalEfforts 246
MarkA.Runco
17 PretendPlayandCreativity:TwoTemplatesfortheFuture 264
SandraW.Russ
18 AnInterdisciplinaryStudyofGroupCreativity 280
R.KeithSawyer
19 CreativityisUndefinable,Controllable,andEverywhere 291
PaulJ.Silvia
20 Genius,Creativity,andLeadership:AHalf-CenturyJourney
throughScience,History,Mathematics,andPsychology 302
DeanKeithSimonton
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21 TheTriangleofCreativity 318
RobertJ.Sternberg
22 CreativityasaContinuum 335
ThomasB.Ward
23 ReflectionsonaPersonalJourneyStudyingthePsychology
ofCreativity 351
RobertW.Weisberg
Afterword:TheBigQuestionsintheFieldofCreativity–
NowandTomorrow 374
RobertJ.SternbergandJamesC.Kaufman
Index 381
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Figures
5.1 Functionalmodelofthecreativepersonality page68
11.1 Modelofcreativeproblem-solvingprocesses 149
13.1 Modelofproblemconstructionoperations 187
14.1 Thethree-ringconceptionofgiftedness 216
14.2 Theschoolwideenrichmentmodel 220
16.1 Hierarchyofapproachestothestudyofcreativity 258
23.1 Reversiblecube 354
23.2 Insightproblems 355
23.3 Nine-Dotproblem 358
23.4 Outlineofamodelofproblemsolving 361
23.5 Leonardo’saerialscrew 365
23.6 PossibleconceptuallinksleadingtoLeonardo’sinvention
oftheaerialscrewthroughanalyticthinking 366
23.7 PossibleconceptuallinksleadingtoWilkins’sinvention
ofradarthroughanalyticthinking 368
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Tables
2.1 Intercorrelationsamongcreativityratings(rawscores) page20
2.2 Intercorrelationsamongcreativityratings;variance
attributabletoIQremoved 20
5.1 Definitionsofindividualandoverallscientificcreativity
indices 71
17.1 Modelofcreativityandpretendplay 267
21.1 Threetypesofdefianceinthetriangulartheoryofcreativity 319
21.2 Typesofcreativity 324
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Contributors
teresa m. amabile HarvardBusinessSchool
john baer RiderUniversity
ronald a. beghetto UniversityofConnecticut
arthur cropley UniversityofHamburg
mihalyi csikszentmihalyi ClaremontGraduateSchool
samantha elliott UniversityofOklahoma
gregory j. feist SanJoseStateUniversity
adrian furnham UniversityCollege,London
howard gardner HarvardUniversity
terri goslin-jones SaybrookUniversity
beth a. hennessey WellesleyCollege
james c. kaufman UniversityofConnecticut
todd lubart UniversityofParisSorbonneCity
robert martin UniversityofOklahoma
tristan mcintosh UniversityofOklahoma
michael d. mumford UniversityofOklahoma
jonathan a. plucker JohnsHopkinsUniversity
roni reiter-palmon UniversityofNebraskaatOmaha
joseph s. renzulli UniversityofConnecticut
ruth richards SaybrookUniversity
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