Creativity across domains faces of the muse

Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied creative thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts, sciences, and communication/leadership. Each...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kaufman, James C. (-), Baer, John
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798048506719
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: How People Think, Work, and Act Creatively in Diverse Domains; 1 The Creative Process in Poets; 2 Flow and the Art of Fiction; 3 Acting; 4 Should Creativity Be a Visual Arts Orphan?; 5 Creativity and Dance-A Call for Balance; 6 Musical Creativity Research; 7 Domain-Specific Creativity in the Physical Sciences; 8 Creativity in Psychology: On Becoming and Being a Great Psychologist; 9 Creativity in Computer Science; 10 Engineering Creativity: A Systems Concept of Functional Creativity
  • 11 Creativity as a General and a Domain-Specific Ability: The Domain of Mathematics as an Exemplar12 Creative Problem-Solving Skills in Leadership: Direction, Actions, and Reactions; 13 Emotions as Mediators and as Products of Creative Activity; 14 Selective Retention Processes That Create Tensions Between Novelty and Value in Business Domains; 15 Management: Synchronizing Different Kinds of Creativity; 16 Creativity in Teaching: Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions; 17 The Domain Generality Versus Specificity Debate: How Should It Be Posed?
  • 18 The (Relatively) Generalist View of Creativity19 Whence Creativity? Overlapping and Dual-Aspect Skills and Traits; 20 The Amusement Park Theory of Creativity; Author Index; Subject Index