Creativity: From potential to realization.

Who is creative and why? And what does it mean to be creative? Is a creative individual a master-of-all trades or a master of one? In other words, is creativity a generalized attribute or is it a domain-specific attribute? In Creativity: The Psychology of Creative Potential and Realization, authors ponder these questions and discuss the attributes that lead people to be creative in various fields such as the arts and letters, the sciences, and business. The emphasis of this volume is on the theoretical issue of whether the attributes that lead to creativity in one domain are the same as those that lead to creativity in another domain. Researchers and students alike will find these discussions delightfully intriguing. The study of creativity is burgeoning and multidisciplinary, in that it involves approaches of social, personality, cognitive, clinical, biological, differential, developmental, and educational psychology. The book will be of interest a wide range of psychologists, researchers and students. The Emphasis Of This Volume Is On The Theoretical Issue Of Whether The Attributes That Lead To Creativity In One Domain Are The Same As Those That Lead To Creativity In Another Domain. The Study Of Creativity Is Burgeoning And Multidisciplinary In That It Involves Approaches Of Social, Personality, Cognitive, Clinical, Biological, Differential, Developmental, And Educational Psychology. This Book Will Be Of Interest To A Wide Range Of Psychologists, Researchers, And Students.--jacket. Heisenberg's Haiku, Madonna's Math : Why It Is Hard To Be Creative In -- Everyone Of The House / James C. Kaufman And John Baer -- The Artistic Personality : A Systems Perspective / Sami Abuhamdeh And Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- The General-specificity Of Creativity : A Multivariate Approach / Todd Lubart And Jacques-henri Guignard -- Everyone Has Creative Potential / Mark A. Runco -- The Evolved Fluid Specificity Of Human Creative Talent / Gregory J. Feist -- Creativity As A Constrained Stochastic Process / Dean Keith Simonton -- Inventors : The Ordinary Genius Next Door / Sheila J. Henderson -- Artistic Scientists And Scientific Artists : The Link Between Polymathy And Creativity / Robert Root-berstein And Michele Root Berstein -- Why Creativity Is Domain General, Why It Looks Domain Specific, And Why The Distinction Doesn't Matter / Jonathan A. Plucker And Ronald A. Beghetto -- Vertical And Horizontal Mentoring For Creativity / Mia Keinanen And Howard Gardner -- Concluding Comments : Cross-over Creativity Or Domain Specificity? / Jerome L. Singer. Edited By Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko, And Jerome L. Singer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "The purpose of this book is to help readers understand what it means to be creative. Thus, the principal questions it answers are, "Who is creative--and why?" and "What is creativity?" The authors discuss the attributes that lead people to be creative in fields such as the arts and letters, the sciences, and business. The particular emphasis of the book is on the theoretical issue of whether the attributes (internal or external) that lead to creativity in one domain are the same as those that lead to creativity in another domain. Our interest is in whether the creative scientist or artist is someone who would have been creative had he or she pursued any field. In other words, is creativity a generalized attribute, as is implied by psychometric tests of creativity, or is it a domain-specific attribute, as implied by some studies of the role of knowledge in creative and other forms of expertise? The potential audience for our book is broad because the volume addresses a topic that is of potential relevance to any psychologist and to people outside the field. Practitioners need to be creative in their psychotherapy. Scientists need to be creative in designing theories and research. Educators need to be creative in their ways of teaching. There are few psychologists who do not need to be creative in their work, regardless of specialization. Moreover, the psychological study of creativity is multidisciplinary, involving approaches of social, personality, cognitive, clinical, biological, differential, developmental, educational, and other forms of psychology"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) Creativity From Potential to Realization......Page 2 Hawking's Haiku, Madonna's Math: Why It Is Hard to Be Creative in Every Room of the House......Page 10 Everyone Has Creative Potential......Page 28 The Artistic Personality: A Systems Perspective......Page 38 The Generality-Specificity of Creativity: A Multivariate Approach......Page 50 The Evolved Fluid Specificity of Human Creative Talent......Page 64 Creativity as a Constrained Stochastic Process......Page 90 Inventors: The Ordinary Genius Next Door......Page 109 Artistic Scientists and Scientific Artists: The Link Between Polymathy and Creativity......Page 132 Why Creativity Is Domain General, Why It Looks Domain Specific, and Why the Distinction Does Not Matter......Page 157 Vertical and Horizontal Mentoring for Creativity......Page 172 Concluding Comments: Crossover Creativity or Domain Specificity?......Page 197 index......Page 206