This article presents the argument that being explicit about a previously implicit process has a profound sociological effect---it changes that process from an elitist to an egalitarian activity. (Author)

Discusses the facotrs involved in recognizing and encouraging creative ability, and summarizes creativity research to date. (SP)

Describes the Creative Studies Project, which proposes to increase the degree to which American education cultivates creative potential in our society. (Author/DR)

Describes research on creative processes, in which subjects were tested in a hypnotic experiment. (DR)

Author has attempted to call attention to the weaknesses of some prominent research in the field of art education and to point out what he thinks is the insidious nature of the propaganda that it generates and reinforces. (Author/LF)

The differential role of mobility in creativity and in intelligence suggests that horizontal mobility may be essential in creativity and vertical mobility in intelligence. (Author/WY)

This investigation was conducted to determine whether manipulation of authoritarian attitudes would have a consequent effect on creativity. The marked success in creativity change in all but the high-authoritarian males suggests that creativity and authoritarianism are part of a single underlying dimension called open-mindedness, closed-mindedness…

Presents the idea that research into creativity is an outgrowth of the study of dynamic intelligence and the gifted child. Creativity research has become an important area of study as evidenced by (a) the increasing quantity of research literature in the field, (b) the postulation of theories of creativity, (c) the development of instruments to…

Investigates the relationship between age and creativity among a sample of 271 manifestly creative women aged 23-87 years. Creativity showed no significant negative correlation with age. However, among control subjects not selected for creativity, the negative correlation between age and creativity scores was statistically significant. (Author/RH)

Investigates two opposing views of creativity, that of the Freudian psychologists vs. the interpretation of humanistic psychologists, and offers a compromising, perhaps more gestalt solution, along with a new mathematical model and ideas for research in developing a more complete theory of creativity. (Author/RK)

Suggests that the concept of creativity has been used in an imprecise manner in education. Reviews theories of creativity in humanistic psychology, experimental psychology, and the cognitive psychological works of Piaget and Vygotsky. Argues that educators have not always distinguished between these differing views of creativity. (41 citations)…

In the works of the playwright Pierre Corneille, the core dilemma of love versus duty, which underlay the artist's endeavors, evolved from the stage of articulation or problem finding in early adulthood, to dilemma resolution at midlife, and finally to dilemma fragmentation in old age. Argues that the dialectical tensions underlying creativity are…

Argues that Cohen-Shalev, in the previous article, has not adequately proven the claim that the dilemma Corneille focused on, that of love versus duty, was Corneille's own inner conflict, rather than simply the dilemma that Corneille wrote about. Takes issue with the view that a rich, creative artistic career must be influenced by one dominant…

The aim of this article is to investigate the effect of creativity on performance in oral narrative tasks. Participants in the study were Hungarian learners whose creativity was measured with a standardized creativity test. We examined the relationships among 3 aspects of creativity--originality, flexibility, and creative fluency--and different…

It's not your grandmother's crafting projects! Instead, hip librarians as well as their teen patrons can engage in the hottest new DIY way of life, recycling everything from discarded books to Altoids tins. Getting hands-on and making the coolest crafts can be a way to encourage teens' individuality and growing sense of self. Whether projects are…