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Informationen zum Autor James C. Kaufman is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. The author or editor of more than thirty-five books, he is a past president of American Psychological Association's Division 10 and founding editor of two APA journals. He currently co-edits International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving. Kaufman has won awards from APA (the Berlyne Award and the Farnsworth Award), Mensa's Research Award, National Association for Gifted Children's Torrance Award, and the American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Vlad Glaveanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His books include Thinking Through Creativity and Culture (2014), Distributed Creativity (2014), Rethinking Creativity (with Alex Gillespie and Jaan Valsiner, 2014), and Creativity: A New Vocabulary (with Lene Tanggaard Pedersen and Charlotte Wegener, 2016). John Baer is Professor of Educational Psychology at Rider University, New Jersey. He is winner of the American Psychological Association's Berlyne Prize and the National Conference on College Teaching and Learning's Award for Innovative Excellence. His books include Domain Specificity of Creativity (2015), Being Creative Inside and Outside the Classroom (with James C. Kaufman, 2012), Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach (1993), Creative Teachers, Creative Students (1996), Creativity across Domains: Faces of the Muse (with James C. Kaufman, 2005), Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development (with James C. Kaufman, Cambridge, 2016), Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will (with James C. Kaufman and Roy F. Baumeister, 2008), and Essentials of Creativity Assessment (with James C. Kaufman and Jonathan A. Plucker, 2008). Klappentext This volume explores and integrates research on creativity across domains to address whether creativity is a general or domain-specific ability. Zusammenfassung This volume addresses the question of whether creativity is a general ability or whether it is domain-specific! bringing together researchers across academia to explain the cognitive processes! ways of solving problems! personality and motivational attributes! guiding metaphors! and work habits that best characterize creative people. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Creativity and Domains: 1. Creativity across different domains: an expansive approach James C. Kaufman, Vlad Gl¿veanu and John Baer; 2. The amusement park theoretical model of creativity: an attempt to bridge the domain specificity/generality gap John Baer and James C. Kaufman; 3. Mix and match: opportunities, conditions, and limitations of cross-domain creativity Joanna Szen-Ziemiäska, Izabela Lebuda and Maciej Karwowski; 4. Domain-general creativity: on generating original, useful, and surprising combinations Dean Keith Simonton; Part II. Creativity in the Traditional Arts: 5. The creativity of literary writing Keith Oatley and Maja Djikic; 6. Creativity in the visual arts Matthew Pelowski, Helmut Leder and Pablo Tinio; 7. The creation and aesthetic appreciation of architecture Oshin Vartanian; 8. Photography and creativity Joanna Serafin and Stephen J. Dollinger; 9. The constricted muse: acting Thalia R. Goldstein and Anne G. Levy; 10. Musical creativity Aaron Kozbelt; 11. Dance Paula Thomson; Part III. Creativity in the Sciences: 12. Creativity in the physical sciences Gregory J. Feist; 13. Biomedicine, creativity, and the story of AIDS Mei Tan and Elena L. Grigorenko; 14. Creativity in psychology: finding its niche in the sciences Dean Keith Simonton; 15. Creativity in the engineering domain David H. Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley and Bree L. Sandwith; 16. Creativity in the domain of mathematics Ugur Sak, Ülkü Ayvaz, Bilge Bal-Sezerel and N. Nazl¿ Özdemir; 17. Creativity in computer science Paul Joseph Barnett and Ralf Romeike; Part IV. Creativity in Business...
