The Creativity Reader

Vlad Glaveanu is Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Psychology and Director of the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation at Webster University Geneva, Switzerland, as well as Associate Professor II at SLATE, University of Bergen, Norway. He obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics. His work develops a sociocultural account of creativity and imagination, collaboration, and perspective-taking.

• Chapter 1 Revisiting the Foundations of Creativity StudiesVlad P. Glaveanu PART ONE The Creative Process Chapter 2 The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative ProcessTeresa M. Amabile Chapter 3 Science and Method, Henri PoincaréGiovanni Emanuele Corazza and Todd Lubart Chapter 4 Inspiration or Perspiration? Reflections on Edwin Prindle's "The Art of Inventing"David H. Cropley PART TWO Creativity Assessment Chapter 5 Dr. Laura M. Chassell Toops: Forgotten Pioneer of Creativity AssessmentJames C. Kaufman Chapter 6 Sir Francis Galton and the "Statistics of Mental Imagery"Maciej Karwowski and Dorota M. Jankowska Chapter 7 Measuring Ideation in the 1900s: The Contribution of Alfred BinetBaptiste Barbot and Jacques-Henri Guignard PART THREE Creative Thinking Chapter 8 The Impact and Pitfalls of "Real Thinking": Wertheimer's Continuing InfluenceMichael Hanchett Hanson Chapter 9 Functional Fixedness, Creativity and Problem-Solving, Karl DunckerVlad P. Glaveanu Chapter 10 Abductive Reasoning and the Genesis of New Ideas, Charles S. PeirceRonald A. Beghetto PART FOUR Beyond Creative Thinking Chapter 11 Imitation and Creativity, Gabriel Tarde and James Mark Baldwin Vlad P. Glaveanu Chapter 12 Tragedies of ActualizationMichael Hanchett Hanson Chapter 13 Do We Make Our Own Luck? Reflections on Ernst Mach's Analysis of Invention and DiscoveryDavid H. Cropley PART FIVE Creativity Development and Education Chapter 14 Imagination and Creativity in Childhood, L.S. VygotskySeana Moran and Vera John-Steiner Chapter 15 The Meaning of Play, Erik H. EriksonJessica D. Hoffmann and Rose H. Miller Chapter 16 Creativity in the Classroom, John DeweyBeth A. Hennessey PART SIX Genius and Creativity Chapter 17 The Nature and Nurture of Creative Genius, Francis GaltonDean Keith Simonton Chapter 18 On Great Thoughts, William JamesDean Keith Simonton Chapter 19 Genius and Eminence, Catharine M. CoxDean Keith Simonton PART SEVEN Creativity, Imagination, and Day-Dreaming Chapter 20 On "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" by Sigmund Freud (1908)Tania Zittoun Chapter 21 Théodule Ribot's Essay on Creative Imagination: A Plea For the Study of Multiple CreativitiesChristophe Mouchiroud and Todd Lubart Chapter 22 On Bartlett's (1928) Types of ImaginationTania Zittoun PART EIGHT Creativity in Art and Design Chapter 23 Creativity as a Process: John Dewey's "Art as Experience"Keith Sawyer Chapter 24 Literary Creative Imagination, Alfred BinetTodd Lubart and Christophe Mouchiroud Chapter 25 Skinner on Poetry, Fiction, and Design: An Implicit Science of CreativityMark A. Runco PART NINE Creativity in Groups and Interactions Chapter 26 Social Creativity and the Emergent Self, George Herbert MeadVlad P. Glaveanu Chapter 27 Group Dynamics and Team Creativity: The Contribution of Kurt Lewin to the Study of Teams, Creativity, and InnovationRoni Reiter-Palmon and Salvatore Leone Chapter 28 The Idea in Dostoevsky, Mikhail BakhtinVlad P. Glaveanu PART TEN Creativity, Culture, and Society Chapter 29 Configurations of Culture Growth, Alfred L. KroeberDean Keith Simonton Chapter 30 Sociability and Creativity, The Sociology of Georg SimmelVlad P. Glaveanu Chapter 31 Authoritarianism and Creativity: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and "The Authoritarian Personality"Alfonso Montuori PART ELEVEN Critical Reflections Chapter 32 The Recurring Challenge of NietzcheMichael Hanchett Hanson Chapter 33 Introducing New Voices to the Creativity Studies Conversation: W.E.B. Du Bois, Double-Consciousness, and "The Souls of Black Folk"Edward P. Clapp Chapter 34 Beyond Creative Destruction, Joseph SchumpeterVlad P. Glaveanu

"A helpful companion to all whose interest in creativity extends to tracing the roots of its emergence as a modern psychological concept"