An act of creation

By Kamran Baig. British medical journal, 2003

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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science

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Creativity, Intelligence, and Personality: A Critical Review of the Scattered Literature (2006, background): “In the 1960s, theorists tried to explain the complex relation between intellectual ability and creativity (Koestler, 1964; Mednick, 1962).”
Comparing the Attributes, Activities, and Performance of Divergent, Convergent, and Combination Thinkers (2001, background): “Studies of artists, inventors, and scientists found they used divergent and convergent thought to discern parallel links and patterns among dissimilar ideas, and doing so helped their CPS (Dreistadt, 1974; Koestler, 1966).”
Four Mental Operations in Creative Cognition: The Importance of Abstraction (2007, background): “Creativity Research Journal 169 Finally, the combination operation is essential for concepts such as morphological synthesis (Allen, 1962), bissociation (Koestler, 1964), and conceptual combinations (Hampton, 1987).”
Diversity in Alliance Portfolios and Performance Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis (2017, background): “However, in the context of knowledge recombination and learning, separation implies the mixing of perspectives that lead to greater learning (Koestler, 1964).”
The Propulsion Model of Creative Contributions Applied to the Arts and Letters (2001, background): “A second distinction made by Ward and his colleagues is between domain-specific (Clement, 1989; Langley, Simon, Bradshaw, & Zytkow, 1987; Perkins, 1981; Weisberg, 1986) and universal (Finke, 1990, 1995; Guilford, 1968; Koestler, 1964) creativity skills.”
CREATIVE COMBINATION OF REPRESENTATIONS: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTION (2010, background): “2 The combinatorial conjecture has been proposed or assumed by many authors, but the evidence presented for it has been restricted to a few examples (e.g. Boden, 2004; Finke, Ward, and Smith, 1992; Koestler, 1967; Mednick, 1962; Poincaré, 1912; and Thagard, 1988, 1997).”
Satire, Punch Lines, and the Nightly News: Untangling Media Effects on Political Participation (2011, background): “Because research demonstrates that humor requires effortful processing on the part of audience members (Young, 2008 ), we expect there will be significant differences in audience members who view political entertainment versus those who rely on traditional TV news, where the purpose is to inform, r”
Imagination and the Meaningful Brain (2003, background): “A classic example was provided by Lakoff: one waitress says to another, “The ham sandwich just spilled beer all over himself” (1987). Linguists and philosophers have debated whether metonymy is different from, or similar to, metaphor (Gibbs 1993).”
Models of the Creative Process: Past, Present and Future (2001, background): “Concerning the synthesis or combination of information, there has been research on several processes such as bisociation (Koestler, 1964), Janusian thinking (Rothenberg, 1979, 1996), homospatial thinking (Rothenberg, 1979, 1986), articulation (Rothenberg, 1979), analogy and metaphor (Ward, Smith, & ”
The effects of embeddedness on the entrepreneurial process (2002, background): “To paraphrase Koestler (1964) the smallness of the area should have made it easy to survey trends which in other places appear confused and diluted by size.”
The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine Creativity (2013, background): “…new idea or product, one that never existed before; rather, creativity often involves combining existing ideas in new ways that are useful for solving practical problems (Baughman & Mumford, 1995; Chua & Iyengar, 2008; Hofstadter, 1985; Koestler, 1964; Mobley, Doares, & Mumford, 1992; Weick, 1979).”
Teaching for creativity: from sage to guide to meddler (2009, background): “Creativity, then, may be argued, among other things, to be evident in the capacity of an individual or team to perceive a problem in two habitually incompatible associative contexts (Koestler, 1964), making it possible to select, reshuffle, combine or synthesize already existing facts, ideas, facult”
Closing the Knowledge Gap in Foreign Markets: A Learning Perspective (2005, background): “Transformation denotes a firm’s capability to develop and refine the routines that facilitate combining existing knowledge and the newly acquired and assimilated knowledge (Koestler, 1966; Kim 1997; Fichman and Kemerer, 1999).”
Wiki: A Technology for Conversational Knowledge Management and Group Collaboration (2004, background): “…existing pages (question marks), should also affect group creativity positively, since making connections is one of the driving forces of creativity [e.g. Sternberg, 1988; Koestler, 1964; Holyoak and Thagard, 1989], We should note that the use of Wikis instead of GDSS may result in process losses.”