Why Isn't Creativity More Important to Educational Psychologists? Potentials, Pitfalls, and Future Directions in Creativity Research

By Jonathan Plucker, R. Beghetto, Gayle T. Dow. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Creativity and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis (2017, background): “As such, commonly used creativity tests often fail to represent broader conceptions of creativity (Baer, 2014; Cropley, 2006), which include a combination of originality and task constraints (Beghetto, Kaufman, & Baer, 2015; Plucker et al., 2004; Simonton, 2012).”
Possibility thinking: culminative studies of an evidence-based concept driving creativity? (2013, background): “It acknowledges the distinction between ‘big-c creativity’ which focuses on the work of the genius (such as the work of Gardner 1993; Simonton 1994) and ‘little-c’ or ‘everyday’ creativity (such as the work of Craft 2000, 2001; Kaufman and Baer 2006; Plucker, Beghetto, and Dow 2004; Sternberg, Grigo”
The Creativity of Text-to-Image Generation (2022, background): “One popular operationalization of this measure in the scholarly literature is the two-part “standard” definition of creativity [45, 54].”
Handbook of Giftedness in Children: Psychoeducational Theory, Research, and Best Practices (2008, neutral): “The meaning of this finding is, however, far from clear (Dai, 2004; Plucker et al., 2004).”
On the Cognitive Benefits of Cultural Experience: Exploring the Relationship between Studying Abroad and Creative Thinking (2012, background): “For example, a content analysis of published definitions of creativity documents a wide range of standards including uniqueness, usefulness, artistic quality, and accessibility (Plucker et al., 2004).”
How teachers perceive factors that influence creativity development: Applying a Social Cognitive Theory perspective (2018, background): “This general educational psychology theory dovetails with the Plucker et al. (2004) definition of creativity and serves to anchor our work.”
Creative Thought as Blind Variation and Selective Retention: Why Creativity is Inversely Related to Sightedness (2013, neutral): “After all, many creativity definitions, whether they use two or three criteria, specify the first criterion as novelty rather than originality (Plucker et al., 2004; Runco & Jaeger, 2012; cf. Simonton & Damian, in press).”
Taking the U.S. Patent Office Criteria Seriously: A Quantitative Three-Criterion Creativity Definition and Its Implications (2012, background): “On the contrary, a very large number of alternative definitions crop up in the research literature (Plucker, Beghetto, & Dow, 2004 ).”
Mapping the Landscape of Creativity Support Tools in HCI (2019, neutral): “2018 [29, 30, 62, 73, 90, 111, 126, 162, 165, 171, 175, 184] 2017 [3, 7, 36, 43, 64, 82, 94, 98, 102, 118, 130, 134, 150, 158, 176, 183, 192] 2016 [9, 25, 35, 39, 57, 63, 66, 79, 81, 87, 101, 114, 117, 127, 129, 159, 167, 187] 2015 [38, 54, 89, 100, 123, 137, 160, 166, 168, 186] 2014 [14, 37, 55, 71”