The Nature of creativity: contemporary psychological perspectives

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Preface List of contributors Introduction Part I. The Role of the Environment in Creativity: 1. The conditions of creativity Beth A. Hennessey and Teresa M. Amabile Part II. The Role of the Individual in Creativity Section 1. Psychometric Approaches: 2. The nature of creativity as manifest in its testing E. Paul Torrance 3. Putting creativity to work Frank Barron 4. Various approaches to and definitions of creativity Calvin W. Taylor Section 2. Cognitive Approaches: 5. A three-facet model of creativity Robert J. Sternberg 6. Problem solving and creativity Robert W. Weisberg 7. A computational model of scientific insight Pat Langley and Randolph Jones 8. Freedom and constraint in creativity Philip N. Johnson-Laird 9. Creativity as a mechanical process Roger C. Schank Part III. The Role of the Individual-Environment Interaction in Creativity Section 1. The Study of Creative Lives: 10. Inching our way up Mount Olympus: the evolving-systems approach to creative thinking Howard E. Gruber and Sara N. Davis 11. Creativity: dreams, insights and transformations David Henry Feldman 12. Creative lines and creative works: a synthetic scientific approach Howard Gardener Section 2. The Study of Creative Systems: 13. Society, culture, and person: a systems view of creativity Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 14. Creativity and talent as learning Herbert J. Walberg 15. The possibility of invention D. N. Perkins 16. Creativity, leadership, and chance Dean Keith Simonton Part IV. Integration and Conclusion: 17. What do we know about creativity? Twila Z. Tardiff and Robert J. Sternberg Author index Subject index.