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Direct linkSimonton, Dean Keith – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
This article provides an update on the blind-variation and selective-retention theory of creativity (BVSR), beginning with an overview of its historical development. That brief narrative is then followed by a more extensive summary of recent enhancements in BVSR's conceptual foundations, including formal definitions of creative, sighted, and blind…
Descriptors: Theories, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving
Glaveanu, Vlad Petre; Hanchett Hanson, Michael; Baer, John; Barbot, Baptiste; Clapp, Edward P.; Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele; Hennessey, Beth; Kaufman, James C.; Lebuda, Izabela; Lubart, Todd; Montuori, Alfonso; Ness, Ingunn J.; Plucker, Jonathan; Reiter-Palmon, Roni; Sierra, Zayda; Simonton, Dean Keith; Neves-Pereira, Monica Souza; Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
This manifesto, discussed by 20 scholars, representing diverse lines of creativity research, marks a conceptual shift within the field. Socio-cultural approaches have made substantial contributions to the concept of creativity over recent decades and today can provide a set of propositions to guide our understanding of past research and to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Sociocultural Patterns, Scholarship, Futures (of Society)
Simonton, Dean Keith – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2018
I argue that any attempt to define creative ideas cannot fully succeed without also defining uncreative ideas. This argument begins by defining three parameters that characterize a potentially creative thought: the idea's initial probability (p), the final utility (u), and the creator's prior knowledge of that utility (v). The three parameters…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Creative Activities
Simonton, Dean Keith – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2017
The author starts by narrating his personal experiences with the "Journal of Creative Behavior". Although the author began publishing his creativity research in 1975, he did not submit his first manuscript until 1981, 14 years after JCB's founding--a manuscript that was finally published in 1983 without ever being formally accepted! The…
Descriptors: Creativity, Periodicals, Writing for Publication, Research
Big-C versus Little-c Creativity: Definitions, Implications, and Inherent Educational Contradictions
Simonton, Dean Keith – Creativity Theory and Action in Education, 2017
Two empirical investigations showed that achieved eminence as a creator can sometimes be a curvilinear, inverted-U function of the level of formal education attained by the individual. Typically, the peak falls approximately in the last year of undergraduate education. Because these findings suggest that formal education might not always be…
Descriptors: Creativity, Definitions, Undergraduate Students, Creative Thinking
Simonton, Dean Keith – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Arthur Cropley (2006) emphasized the critical place that convergent thinking has in creativity. Although he briefly refers to the blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) theory of creativity, his discussion could not reflect the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in BVSR, especially the resulting combinatorial models.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes
Simonton, Dean Keith – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2013
Although the theory that creativity requires blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) is now more than a half-century old, only recently has BVSR theory undergone appreciable conceptual development, including formal three-parameter definitions of both creativity and sightedness. In this article, these new developments are for the first time…
Descriptors: Creativity, Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Epistemology
Simonton, Dean Keith – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2012
Too often, psychological debates become polarized into dichotomous positions. Such polarization may have occurred with respect to Campbell's (1960) blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) theory of creativity. To resolve this unnecessary controversy, BVSR was radically reformulated with respect to creative problem solving. The reformulation…
Descriptors: Evolution, Creativity, Probability, Problem Solving
Simonton, Dean Keith – Creativity Research Journal, 2012
Although creativity has recently attracted considerable theoretical and empirical research, researchers have yet to reach a consensus on how best to define the phenomenon. To help establish a consensus, a definition is proposed that is based on the three criteria used by the United States Patent Office to evaluate applications for patent…
Descriptors: Creativity, Intellectual Property, Public Agencies, Criteria
Simonton, Dean Keith – Teaching of Psychology, 2012
In the past decade, the psychological study of creativity has accelerated greatly. To facilitate the teaching of creativity, I provide an overview of the recent literature. The overview begins by discussing recent empirical results and research trends. This discussion specifically treats creativity's cognitive, differential, developmental, and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Development, Instruction, Teaching Methods
Simonton, Dean Keith – Gifted and Talented International, 2010
This article presents the author's response to Hisham B. Ghassib's essay entitled "Where Does Creativity Fit into a Productivist Industrial Model of Knowledge Production?" Professor Ghassib's (2010) essay presents a provocative portrait of how the little science of the Babylonians, Greeks, and Arabs became the Big Science of the modern industrial…
Descriptors: Creativity, Social Sciences, Physics, Scientists
Cassandro, Vincent J.; Simonton, Dean Keith – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2010
Creative individuals are considered "versatile" when their achievements extend beyond their most commonly cited domain, thus indicating remarkable and varied interests and abilities. The present study examined the association between versatility and (a) the personalities of eminent creators and (b) the topical diversity of their creative products.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Personality Traits, Differences, Intellectual History
Simonton, Dean Keith – High Ability Studies, 2007
In this commentary, the author focuses on the claim summarized in the last sentence of the target article's abstract. To begin, the concept of talent does not require the existence of "innate constraints to the attainment of elite achievement". On the contrary, genetic endowment may merely influence the rate at which domain-specific expertise is…
Descriptors: Genetics, Creativity, Talent, Cognitive Ability
Simonton, Dean Keith – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2008
Although the association between giftedness and genius has been the subject of several retrospective, longitudinal, and historiometric studies, this research concentrated on majority-culture samples. In the current study, Cox's (1926) findings regarding 301 geniuses were replicated on a sample of 291 eminent African Americans. Relative genius was…
Descriptors: Creativity, Gifted, African American Culture, African Americans
Peer reviewedSimonton, Dean Keith – Social Behavior and Personality, 1975
The interdisciplinary relationships among 15 kinds of creative achievement were examined over 130 generations of European history. A P-technique factor analysis located three major interdisciplinary clusters: (a) discursive; (b) presentational; and (c) rationalism-mysticism. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Creativity, Creativity Research, European History
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