Creativity from Constraints: The Psychology of Breakthrough

By P. D. Stokes. 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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WinoGrande (2019, methodology): “To encourage creativity and reduce their cognitive load, we employed creativity from constraints (Stokes 2005) – a psychological notion which suggests that appropriate constraints can help structure and drive creativity.”
A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological (2020, background): “The literature on constraints and creativity is also inclined to consider material properties (Stokes, 2005) although often the focus is on how constraints are perceived, represented, or selfimposed rather than an analysis of the physical environment of creative people.”
Convergence innovation in the digital age and in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis (2020, unknown): “contribute only about one-third of corporate profits (Stokes, 2006).”
Assessing General Creativity and Creative Engineering Design in First Year Engineering Students (2009, background): “Highly creative people redefine problems, analyze ideas, persuade others and make reasonable risks to help generate ideas (Sternberg and Dess, 2001).”
Ideational code‐switching: Walking the talk about supporting student creativity in the classroom (2007, background): “Recognizing that creativityinvolves a combination of originality and appropriateness makes it easier to see how constraints are not antithetical to creativity, but in fact play a critical role in creativity (see Stokes, 2006).”
An Adversarial Winograd Schema Challenge at Scale (2019, methodology): “To encourage creativity and reduce cognitive load, we employed creativity from constraints (Stokes, 2005) – a psychological notion which suggests that appropriate constraints can help structure and drive creativity.”
Let's Dance! Elastic Coordination in Creative Group Work: A Qualitative Study of Modern Dancers (2014, background): “Constraints can motivate individuals to seek novel solutions by forcing them to avoid using techniques that led to previous creative outcomes (Stokes, 2006).”