Handbook of Creativity

by Edited by Robert J. Sternberg

• ISBN13: 9780521572859
• ISBN10: 0521572851
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The goal of this handbook is to provide the most comprehensive, definitive, and authoritative single-volume review available in the field of creativity. The book contains twenty-two chapters covering a wide range of issues and topics in the field of creativity, all written by distinguished leaders in the field. The volume is divided into six parts. The introduction sets out the major themes and reviews the history of thinking about creativity. Subsequent parts deal with methods, origins, self and environment, special topics and conclusions. All educated readers with an interest in creative thinking will find this volume to be accessible and engrossing.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
PART I INTRODUCTION	3	(32)
1 The Concept of Creativity: Prospects and Paradigms	3	(13)
Robert J. Sternberg
Todd I. Lubart
2 A History of Research on Creativity	16	(19)
Robert S. Albert
Mark A. Runco
PART II METHODS FOR STUDYING CREATIVITY	35	(102)
3 Psychometric Approaches to the Study of Human Creativity	35	(27)
Jonathan A. Plucker
Joseph S. Renzulli
4 Experimental Studies of Creativity	62	(31)
Mark A. Runco
Shawn Okuda Sakamoto
5 The Case Study Method and Evolving Systems Approach for Understanding Unique Creative People at Work	93	(23)
Howard E. Gruber
Doris B. Wallace
6 Creativity from a Historiometric Perspective	116	(21)
Dean Keith Simonton
PART III ORIGINS OF CREATIVITY	137	(52)
7 Biological Bases of Creativity	137	(16)
Colin Martindale
8 Evolving Creative Minds: Stories and Mechanisms	153	(16)
Charles J. Lumsden
9 The Development of Creativity	169	(20)
David Henry Feldman
PART IV CREATIVITY, THE SELF, AND THE ENVIRONMENT	189	(150)
10 Creative Cognition	189	(24)
Thomas B. Ward
Steven M. Smith
Ronald A. Finke
11 From Case Studies to Robust Generalizations: An Approach to the Study of Creativity	213	(13)
Emma Policastro
Howard Gardner
12 Creativity and Knowledge: A Challenge to Theories	226	(25)
Robert W. Weisberg
13 Creativity and Intelligence	251	(22)
Robert J. Sternberg
Linda A. O'Hara
14 The Influence of Personality on Artistic and Scientific Creativity	273	(24)
Gregory J. Feist
15 Motivation and Creativity	297	(16)
Mary Ann Collins
Teresa M. Amabile
16 Implications of a Systems Perspective for the Study of Creativity	313	(26)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
PART V SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVITY	339	(110)
17 Creativity Across Cultures	339	(12)
Todd I. Lubart
18 Computer Models of Creativity	351	(22)
Margaret A. Boden
19 Organizational Creativity	373	(19)
Wendy M. Williams
Lana T. Yang
20 Enhancing Creativity	392	(39)
Raymond S. Nickerson
21 Prodigies and Creativity	431	(18)
Michael J. A. Howe
PART VI CONCLUSION	449	(12)
22 Fifty Years of Creativity Research	449	(12)
Richard E. Mayer
Author Index	461	(18)
Subject Index	479