Handbook of CreativityRobert J. Sternberg Cambridge University Press, 1999 - 490 pages The goal of the Handbook of Creativity is to provide the most comprehensive, definitive, and authoritative single-volume review available in the field of creativity. To this end, the book contains 22 chapters covering a wide range of issues and topics in this field, all written by distinguished leaders. The chapters are intended to be accessible to all readers with an interest in creative thinking. Although the authors are leading behavioral scientists, people in all disciplines will find the coverage of creativity in the arts and sciences to be of interest. |
Contents
The Concept of Creativity Prospects and Paradigms | 1 |
A History of Research on Creativity | 14 |
Methods for Studying Creativity | 31 |
Psychometric Approaches to the Study of Human Creativity | 33 |
Experimental Studies of Creativity | 60 |
The Case Study Method and Evolving Systems Approach for Understanding Unique Creative People at Work | 91 |
Creativity from a Historiometric Perspective | 114 |
Origins of Creativity | 133 |
Creativity and Intelligence | 249 |
The Influence of Personality on Artistic and Scientific Creativity | 271 |
Motivation and Creativity | 295 |
Implications of a Systems Perspective for the Study of Creativity | 311 |
Special Topics in Creativity | 335 |
Creativity Across Cultures | 337 |
Computer Models of Creativity | 349 |
Organizational Creativity | 371 |
Biological Bases of Creativity | 135 |
Evolving Creative Minds Stories and Mechanisms | 151 |
The Development of Creativity | 167 |
Creativity the Self and the Environment | 185 |
Creative Cognition | 187 |
From Case Studies to Robust Generalizations An Approach to the Study of Creativity | 211 |
Creativity and Knowledge A Challenge to Theories | 224 |
Enhancing Creativity | 390 |
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Fifty Years of Creativity Research | 447 |
Author Index | 459 |
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