Authors:Mark A. Runco, Ruth Richards,
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: creativity, health, interface, research, work, new, eminent, everyday
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1998-01-16
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 1567501753
ISBN-13: 9781567501759

Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health brings together key past and present cutting-edge papers in the hot area of creativity and mental health. Included are major papers that have attracted interest in the international press (including the New York Ties, Japan’s Asahi Weekly, and New Scientist in England). Other emphases include creativity and "unhappy childhoods," coping with adversity, and immune function and health. Nowhere else is all this material available in one place, together with helpful integration and synthesis. For anyone interested in creativity and health, t

Authors:Mark A. Runco, Ruth Richards,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: creativity, research, publications, everyday, eminent, health
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 1998-01-16
List price: $151.95
ISBN-10: 1567501745
ISBN-13: 9781567501742

Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health brings together key past and present cutting-edge papers in the hot area of creativity and mental health. Included are major papers that have attracted interest in the international press (including the New York Ties, Japan’s Asahi Weekly, and New Scientist in England). Other emphases include creativity and "unhappy childhoods," coping with adversity, and immune function and health. Nowhere else is all this material available in one place, together with helpful integration and synthesis. For anyone interested in creativity and health, t

Author: Teresa M Amabile
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: creativity, psychology, social, update, context
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-06-07
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0813330343
ISBN-13: 9780813330341

Creativity in Context is an update of The Social Psychology of Creativity, a classic text for researchers, students, and other interested readers. Creativity in Context incorporates extensive new material, going far beyond the original to provide a comprehensive picture of how the motivation for creative behavior, and creativity itself, can be influenced by the social environment.Teresa Amabile describes new findings from both her own research and from the work of many others in the field, detailing not only the ways in which creativity can be killed by social-psychological influences, but als

Author: Arthur J. Cropley
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: creativity, classroom, research, fostering, one, ways
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 089391939X
ISBN-13: 9780893919399

Current conceptualizations of children’s thinking tend to be unneccesarily narrow, and to focus on what might be called "convergent" thinking. As a result, invention and innovation are often underemphasized in schools. This text aims to encourage a broad understanding of intellect, and attempts to help teachers to recognize and foster more varied forms of intellectual activity in their students. It offers a review of recent theory on creativity, conceptualizing this as a matter of getting ideas, trying the new, branching out and the like, rather than of producing artistic or scientific p

Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: creativity, edge, cutting, handbook, policy
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 2001-09
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1590330307
ISBN-13: 9781590330302

Contents: Creativity and Related Concepts; Creative People; Creative People in the Second and Third Millennia; Creativity as a Light Bulb or Maze Metaphor; Creativity as Cause and Effect; Cultivation of Creativity; Political, Economic and Social-Psychological Stimulators; Competition and Innovation; Federal Policy; Generating Creative Ideas; Creative Problem Solving; De Bono’s Thinking Course; Bopping Out of the Box; Sources of Goals, Policies and Relations; Creativity and Child-Rearing; Imagination; Inspirational Aids at the MKM Centre; Brainstorming; Why Do Federal Workers Innovate Any

Author: E. Paul Torrance
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: creativity, research, publications, philosophy
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $126.95
ISBN-10: 1567501729
ISBN-13: 9781567501728

"Why Fly? is without argument, an important contribution to the body of theoretical literature on creativity. What makes this work unique, however, is that it’s content and focus also enable it to stand on the shelf along side books on counseling/self help, curriculum development, school administration, business, and leadership. In short, Dr. Torrance has successfully produced a book with nearly universal appeal and application possibilities." - Roeper Review ". . .For readers who are well-versed in Torrance’s major ideas and themes, the book will serve as a convenient reference re

Author: R. Keith Sawyer
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: creativity, publications, research, conversation, improvised, emergence, dialogues
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-09-30
List price: $110.95
ISBN-10: 1567506771
ISBN-13: 9781567506778

Improvised Dialogues is the first social-scientific study of Chicago improv theater, focusing on the collaborative verbal creativity that improvising actors use to generate their unscripted dialogues. Because improvisation is present in all linguistic interaction, these dialogues are relevant to all researchers who study verbal performance.