Tags: Creativity Research · Intrinsic Motivation · Social Psychology · Componential Theory By 1983, the accumulated bibliography of scientific writings on creativity spanned more than four centuries and approached 7,000 entries. Of those, Teresa Amabile noted, fewer than 138 were concerned with social or environmental influences — and in many of those, the “social variable” […]
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Inventing Invention: Altshuller’s Case for a Science of Creativity
Tags: Creativity Research · Systematic Innovation · Problem Solving · TRIZ There is a scene early in The Innovation Algorithm where Altshuller quotes Nicola Tesla’s assessment of Thomas Edison: Edison, Tesla wrote, would not “lose time determining the most probable location” of a needle in a haystack — he would begin picking up straws one […]
Does the Torrance Test Measure Creativity? A Question That Remains Open
Tags: Creativity Research · Psychological Assessment · Divergent Thinking The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) has been, for decades, the most widely used creativity assessment instrument in the world. Its conceptual architecture rests on a well-established premise in the literature: creativity can be operationalised through four fundamental cognitive dimensions — fluency, flexibility, originality, and […]
Creativity Is Not Born Alone: What Vygotski Knew in 1931
Tags: Creativity Research · Developmental Psychology · Sociocultural Theory Section: Creativity Research | masterincreativity.com Based on: Alessandroni (2017) The dominant paradigm in creativity research has long centred on the individual: the exceptional mind that generates novelty in spite of — or beyond — its social context. Lev S. Vygotski’s theoretical framework, first articulated in 1931 […]