Perspectives on Creativity Development

Baptiste Barbot is an assistant professor in psychology at the Department of Psychology, Pace University, New York, and an adjunct assistant professor at the Child Study Center, Yale University, Connecticut.

Preface: Perspectives on Creativity Development 7 Baptiste Barbot This editorial note provides a brief context for the volume and acknowledge all the contributions. 1. Creativity Doesn t Develop in a Vacuum 9 John Baer This article discusses how creativity is necessarily tied to content and should therefore be understood as a domain-specific entity as it develops. 2. Pretend Play: Antecedent of Adult Creativity 21 Sandra W. Russ In this article, pretend play in young children is discussed as an important antecedent of adult creativity given the commonality of cognitive and affective processes involved. 3. Peaks, Slumps, and Bumps : Individual Differences in the Development of Creativity in Children and Adolescents 33 Baptiste Barbot, Todd I. Lubart, Maud Besancon This article reviews and interprets creativity slumps in light of the interaction between individual-level resources, task-specific demands, and environmental influences. 4. The Cross-Cultural Invariance of Creative Cognition: A Case Study of Creative Writing in U.S. and Russian College Students 47 Sergey A. Kornilov, Tatiana V. Kornilova, Elena L. Grigorenko This empirical study offers a psychometric approach to understand how culture may shape the structure and development of creativity. 5. Inhibitory Control as a Core Process of Creative Problem Solving and Idea Generation from Childhood to Adulthood 61 Mathieu Cassotti, Marine Agogue, Anaelle Camarda, Olivier Houde, Gregoire Borst This article reviews research from the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience showing the role of inhibitory control in creative problem solving. 6. Creativity Development in Adolescence: Insight from Behavior, Brain, and Training Studies 73 Sietske W. Kleibeuker, Carsten K. W. De Dreu, Eveline A. Crone In this article, the development of creativity in adolescence is interpreted in light of adolescent s brain and behavioral control processes development. 7. Creative Aspirations or Pipe Dreams? Toward Understanding Creative Mortification in Children and Adolescents 85 Ronald A. Beghetto, Anna E. Dilley This article introduces an empirically testable model of creative mortification and its influence on the development of creativity of children and adolescents. Commentary: Overview of Developmental Perspectives on Creativity and the Realization of Potential 97 Mark A. Runco This commentary underscores some of the key ideas in the volume and pinpoints issues with the concept of Big C creativity, lack of cultural relativity, and inappropriate testing of divergent thinking. Commentary: The Development of Creativity Ability, Motivation, and Potential 111 Paul J. Silvia, Alexander P. Christensen, Katherine N. Cotter This commentary challenges the concept of creative potential (vs. creativity) outlined in the volume and organizes the contributions in a proposed ability x motivation framework of creativity development. INDEX 121