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 Studies
Vlad P. Glaveanu


PART ONE The Creative Process

Chapter 2 The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process
Teresa M. Amabile

Chapter 3 Science and Method, Henri Poincaré
Giovanni 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 Assessment
James 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 Binet
Baptiste Barbot and Jacques-Henri Guignard


PART THREE Creative Thinking

Chapter 8 The Impact and Pitfalls of "Real Thinking": Wertheimer's Continuing Influence
Michael Hanchett Hanson

Chapter 9 Functional Fixedness, Creativity and Problem-Solving, Karl Duncker
Vlad P. Glaveanu

Chapter 10 Abductive Reasoning and the Genesis of New Ideas, Charles S. Peirce
Ronald 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 Actualization
Michael Hanchett Hanson

Chapter 13 Do We Make Our Own Luck? Reflections on Ernst Mach's Analysis of Invention and Discovery
David H. Cropley


PART FIVE Creativity Development and Education

Chapter 14 Imagination and Creativity in Childhood, L.S. Vygotsky
Seana Moran and Vera John-Steiner

Chapter 15 The Meaning of Play, Erik H. Erikson
Jessica D. Hoffmann and Rose H. Miller

Chapter 16 Creativity in the Classroom, John Dewey
Beth A. Hennessey


PART SIX Genius and Creativity

Chapter 17 The Nature and Nurture of Creative Genius, Francis Galton
Dean Keith Simonton

Chapter 18 On Great Thoughts, William James
Dean Keith Simonton

Chapter 19 Genius and Eminence, Catharine M. Cox
Dean 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 Creativities
Christophe Mouchiroud and Todd Lubart

Chapter 22 On Bartlett's (1928) Types of Imagination
Tania 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 Binet
Todd Lubart and Christophe Mouchiroud

Chapter 25 Skinner on Poetry, Fiction, and Design: An Implicit Science of Creativity
Mark A. Runco


PART NINE Creativity in Groups and Interactions

Chapter 26 Social Creativity and the Emergent Self, George Herbert Mead
Vlad P. Glaveanu

Chapter 27 Group Dynamics and Team Creativity: The Contribution of Kurt Lewin to the Study of Teams, Creativity, and Innovation
Roni Reiter-Palmon and Salvatore Leone

Chapter 28 The Idea in Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin
Vlad P. Glaveanu


PART TEN Creativity, Culture, and Society

Chapter 29 Configurations of Culture Growth, Alfred L. Kroeber
Dean Keith Simonton

Chapter 30 Sociability and Creativity, The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Vlad 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 Nietzche
Michael 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 Schumpeter
Vlad P. Glaveanu