Creativity and Discovery as Blind Variation: Campbell's (1960) BVSR Model after the Half-Century Mark

By Dean Keith Simonton. 2011

187 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Decision Sciences

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Paul T. Sowden
2. Andrew Pringle
3. Liane Gabora
4. Dean Keith Simonton
5. Andreas Lehmann-Wermser
6. G. McPherson
7. E. Kupers
8. P. V. van Geert

In General Decision Sciences

1. Andrew Pringle
2. Liane Gabora
3. Paul T. Sowden
4. Dean Keith Simonton

Citations in the corpus

• Convergent Thinking Moderates the Relationship between Divergent Thinking and Scientific Creativity (2019, background): “…also need to integrate, evaluate all ideas or problem solutions, and pick out the most suitable, which is especially true for scientific creativity (Howard, Culley, & Dekoninck, 2008; Hu & Adey, 2002; Simonton, 2011, 2015; Webb, Little, Cropper, & Roze, 2017; Zeng, Proctor, & Salvendy, 2010, 2011).”
• The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory (2014, background): “Simonton (1999, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) elaborated this into a Darwinian theory of creativity.”
• Children’s Creativity: A Theoretical Framework and Systematic Review (2018, background): “Alterations on this aspect of the theory have been proposed by both proponents (Simonton, 2003, 2011) and opponents (Dasgupta, 2004).”
• Taking the U.S. Patent Office Criteria Seriously: A Quantitative Three-Criterion Creativity Definition and Its Implications (2012, background): “Furthermore, Simonton (2011a) has generalized the definition to handle any number of thought trials that might be evoked during the creative process.”