The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity across Domains

Creativity is of rising interest to scholars and laypeople alike. Creativity in the arts, however, is very different from creativity in science, business, sports, cooking, or teaching. This book brings together top experts in the field from around the world to discuss creativity across many different domains. Each chapter includes clear definitions, intriguing research, potential measures, and suggestions for development or future directions. After a broad discussion of creativity across different domains, subsequent chapters look deeper into those individual domains (traditional arts, sciences, business, newer domains, and everyday life) to explore how creativity varies when expressed in different ways. Ultimately, the book offers a future-looking perspective integrating the different variations of creativity across domains.

Offers the most expansive and complete coverage of creativity research in different domains to date
Presents a large assemblage of both established experts and rising stars across multiple disciplines and cultures
The focus on theories, assessment, and empirical studies enables readers to relate the content to their specific area of interest

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'… The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity across Domains is a useful counterweight to the reductionist 'underbelly' tendencies of a neuroscience approach to creativity. The intellectual enterprise of achieving a thorough understanding of the nature of creativity would do well to keep both aspects in mind as we all proceed.' Aaron Kozbelt, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

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Published: September 2017
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781107526662
Length: 682 pages
Dimensions: 255 × 179 × 30 mm
Weight: 1.39kg
Availability: Available

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Contents

Part I. Creativity and Domains:
1. Creativity across different domains: an expansive approach James C. Kaufman, Vlad Glăveanu and John Baer
2. The amusement park theoretical model of creativity: an attempt to bridge the domain specificity/generality gap John Baer and James C. Kaufman
3. Mix and match: opportunities, conditions, and limitations of cross-domain creativity Joanna Szen-Ziemiańska, Izabela Lebuda and Maciej Karwowski
4. Domain-general creativity: on generating original, useful, and surprising combinations Dean Keith Simonton
Part II. Creativity in the Traditional Arts:
5. The creativity of literary writing Keith Oatley and Maja Djikic
6. Creativity in the visual arts Matthew Pelowski, Helmut Leder and Pablo Tinio
7. The creation and aesthetic appreciation of architecture Oshin Vartanian
8. Photography and creativity Joanna Serafin and Stephen J. Dollinger
9. The constricted muse: acting Thalia R. Goldstein and Anne G. Levy
10. Musical creativity Aaron Kozbelt
11. Dance Paula Thomson
Part III. Creativity in the Sciences:
12. Creativity in the physical sciences Gregory J. Feist
13. Biomedicine, creativity, and the story of AIDS Mei Tan and Elena L. Grigorenko
14. Creativity in psychology: finding its niche in the sciences Dean Keith Simonton
15. Creativity in the engineering domain David H. Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley and Bree L. Sandwith
16. Creativity in the domain of mathematics Ugur Sak, Ülkü Ayvaz, Bilge Bal-Sezerel and N. Nazlı Özdemir
17. Creativity in computer science Paul Joseph Barnett and Ralf Romeike
Part IV. Creativity in Business:
18. Advertising - generating creative ideas in a complex environment Mark Kilgour
19. Marketing Marie Taillard and Benjamin G. Voyer
20. Creative leadership: how problem solving, decision making and organizational context influence leadership creativity Kevin Mitchell and Roni Reiter-Palmon
21. Creativity in educational technologies Kylie Peppler
22. Creativity in design Nathalie Bonnardel and Carole Bouchard
23. A minimalist model for measuring entrepreneurial creativity Elias Carayannis and Phillip Harvard
Part V. Newer Domains for Creativity Research:
24. Intellectual property: does the law influence creativity? Gregory N. Mandel
25. Gastronomy and culinary creativity Jeou-Shyan Horng and Lin Lin
26. Tactical creativity in sport Daniel Memmert
27. Creativity in non-human animals Allison B. Kaufman and William J. O'Hearn
28. Violent innovation: creativity in the domain of terrorism Gina Scott Ligon, Karyn Sporer and Douglas C. Derrick
Part VI. Creativity in Everyday Life:
29. Creativity in the domain of emotions Zorana Ivcevic, Marina Ebert, Jessica D. Hoffmann and Marc A. Brackett
30. Creativity in teaching Ronald A. Beghetto
31. Culture and creativity Rodica Ioana Damian and Reese Tou
32. The benefits of creativity in therapy: current evidence and future directions Marie J. C. Forgeard and Jeanette G. Elstein
33. Creativity in the domain of play: product and processes Sandra Russ and Claire Wallace
34. Creativity in craft Vlad Glăveanu
Part VI. Conclusion:
35. Taking a prospective look at creativity domains Molly Holinger, Vlad Glăveanu, James C. Kaufman and John Baer.

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James C. Kaufman, Vlad Glăveanu, John Baer, Joanna Szen-Ziemiańska, Izabela Lebuda, Maciej Karwowski, Dean Keith Simonton, Keith Oatley, Maja Djikic, Matthew Pelowski, Helmut Leder, Pablo Tinio, Oshin Vartanian, Joanna Serafin, Stephen J. Dollinger, Thalia R. Goldstein, Anne G. Levy, Aaron Kozbelt, Paula Thomson, Gregory J. Feist, Mei Tan, Elena L. Grigorenko, Dean Keith Simonton, David H. Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley, Bree L. Sandwith, Ugur Sak, Ülkü Ayvaz, Bilge Bal-Sezerel, N. Nazlı Özdemir, Paul Joseph Barnett, Ralf Romeike, Mark Kilgour, Marie Taillard, Benjamin G. Voyer, Kevin Mitchell, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Kylie Peppler, Nathalie Bonnardel, Carole Bouchard, Elias Carayannis, Phillip Harvard, Gregory N. Mandel, Jeou-Shyan Horng, Lin Lin, Daniel Memmert, Allison B. Kaufman, William J. O'Hearn, Gina Scott Ligon, Karyn Sporer, Douglas C. Derrick, Zorana Ivcevic, Marina Ebert, Jessica D. Hoffmann, Marc A. Brackett, Ronald A. Beghetto, Rodica Ioana Damian, Reese Tou, Marie J. C. Forgeard, Jeanette G. Elstein, Sandra Russ, Claire Wallace, Molly Holinge

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James C. Kaufman , University of Connecticut
James C. Kaufman is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. The author or editor of more than thirty-five books, he is a past president of American Psychological Association's Division 10 and founding editor of two APA journals. He currently co-edits International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving. Kaufman has won awards from APA (the Berlyne Award and the Farnsworth Award), Mensa's Research Award, National Association for Gifted Children's Torrance Award, and the American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Vlad P. Glăveanu , Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
Vlad Glăveanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His books include Thinking Through Creativity and Culture (2014), Distributed Creativity (2014), Rethinking Creativity (with Alex Gillespie and Jaan Valsiner, 2014), and Creativity: A New Vocabulary (with Lene Tanggaard Pedersen and Charlotte Wegener, 2016).
John Baer , Rider University, New Jersey
John Baer is Professor of Educational Psychology at Rider University, New Jersey. He is winner of the American Psychological Association's Berlyne Prize and the National Conference on College Teaching and Learning's Award for Innovative Excellence. His books include Domain Specificity of Creativity (2015), Being Creative Inside and Outside the Classroom (with James C. Kaufman, 2012), Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach (1993), Creative Teachers, Creative Students (1996), Creativity across Domains: Faces of the Muse (with James C. Kaufman, 2005), Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development (with James C. Kaufman, Cambridge, 2016), Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will (with James C. Kaufman and Roy F. Baumeister, 2008), and Essentials of Creativity Assessment (with James C. Kaufman and Jonathan A. Plucker, 2008).

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