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Catrinel Tromp – Creativity Research Journal, 2025
Integrating research from cognitive, social, organizational, and developmental psychology, the present article builds on the idea that constraints play a key role in creativity. The Mr. Plumbean approach, which refers to the willing integration of focusing constraints for creative purposes, emphasizes the role of attitude toward constraints in…
Descriptors: Creativity, Diversity, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Behavior
Glaveanu, Vlad P.; Beghetto, Ronald A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
We propose a working definition of creative experience that involves principled engagement with the unfamiliar and a willingness to approach the familiar in unfamiliar ways. In other words, a creative experience can be defined as novel person world encounters grounded in meaningful actions and interactions, which are marked by the principles of:…
Descriptors: Creativity, Definitions, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Experience
Brandt, Anthony – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
Over several decades, novel-and-appropriate has become established as the standard definition of creativity; while allowing for variations in the exact wording, the requirement that creativity requires external validation of value, utility, etc. is largely unchallenged. This functions well in high consensus fields in which value can be empirically…
Descriptors: Creativity, Definitions, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Creative Development
Sadler-Smith, Eugene – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Based on a detailed reading of Graham Wallas' "Art of Thought" (1926) it is argued that his four-stage model of the creative process (Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, Verification), in spite of holding sway as a conceptual anchor for many creativity researchers, does not reflect accurately Wallas' full account of the creative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Models, Scientific Principles, Discovery Processes
Gruber, Howard E. – Creativity Research Journal, 1988
This paper describes an evolving systems approach for use in exploring aspects of creativity, including: measurement of creativity; uniqueness; processes which amplify deviation; novelty and progress; chance and purpose; networks of enterprise; self-concept; difficulty, duration, and purpose; sudden insight; and sequential stage theories. (JDD)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Individual Development, Systems Approach
Albert, Robert S.; And Others – Creativity Research Journal, 1988
Several commentaries on Howard Gruber's paper, "The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Work," are offered: "How High Should One Climb to Find Common Ground?" (Robert Albert); "Where is the Evolving Milieu?" (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi); "Creativity: The Individual, The Systems, The Approach" (Todd Lubart and Robert Sternberg); and "Quality and…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Individual Development, Systems Approach