Handbook of Creativity

List of Contributors vii(2) Preface ix PART I INTRODUCTION 3(32) 1 The Concept of Creativity: Prospects and Paradigms 3(13) Robert J. Sternberg Todd I. Lubart 2 A History of Research on Creativity 16(19) Robert S. Albert Mark A. Runco PART II METHODS FOR STUDYING CREATIVITY 35(102) 3 Psychometric Approaches to the Study of Human Creativity 35(27) Jonathan A. Plucker Joseph S. Renzulli 4 Experimental Studies of Creativity 62(31) Mark A. Runco Shawn Okuda Sakamoto 5 The Case Study Method and Evolving Systems Approach for Understanding Unique Creative People at Work 93(23) Howard E. Gruber Doris B. Wallace 6 Creativity from a Historiometric Perspective 116(21) Dean Keith Simonton PART III ORIGINS OF CREATIVITY 137(52) 7 Biological Bases of Creativity 137(16) Colin Martindale 8 Evolving Creative Minds: Stories and Mechanisms 153(16) Charles J. Lumsden 9 The Development of Creativity 169(20) David Henry Feldman PART IV CREATIVITY, THE SELF, AND THE ENVIRONMENT 189(150) 10 Creative Cognition 189(24) Thomas B. Ward Steven M. Smith Ronald A. Finke 11 From Case Studies to Robust Generalizations: An Approach to the Study of Creativity 213(13) Emma Policastro Howard Gardner 12 Creativity and Knowledge: A Challenge to Theories 226(25) Robert W. Weisberg 13 Creativity and Intelligence 251(22) Robert J. Sternberg Linda A. O'Hara 14 The Influence of Personality on Artistic and Scientific Creativity 273(24) Gregory J. Feist 15 Motivation and Creativity 297(16) Mary Ann Collins Teresa M. Amabile 16 Implications of a Systems Perspective for the Study of Creativity 313(26) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART V SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVITY 339(110) 17 Creativity Across Cultures 339(12) Todd I. Lubart 18 Computer Models of Creativity 351(22) Margaret A. Boden 19 Organizational Creativity 373(19) Wendy M. Williams Lana T. Yang 20 Enhancing Creativity 392(39) Raymond S. Nickerson 21 Prodigies and Creativity 431(18) Michael J. A. Howe PART VI CONCLUSION 449(12) 22 Fifty Years of Creativity Research 449(12) Richard E. Mayer Author Index 461(18) Subject Index 479