Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity

By James C. Kaufman, R. Beghetto. 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering

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On the Usefulness of “Value” in the Definition of Creativity (2015, background): “As Kaufman and Beghetto (2009) note, that long time-scale in some judgments concerning creativity, especially creativity at the highest levels, raises difficulties in determining which individuals, active in a field at any given time, are to be judged as creative.”
Creativity of Chinese and American Cultures: A Synthetic Analysis. (2013, background): “More recent theories of creativity include both types of creativity (Beghetto & Kaufman, 2007; Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009).”
Creative Experience: A Non-Standard Definition of Creativity (2020, background): “…function of outcomes for our understanding of creativity (especially when considered through developmental lenses; e.g., Beghetto & Kaufman, 2007; Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009), we propose here a radical act of re-defining creativity that goes beyond any of the four P’s of person, process, product…”
Creativity and Well‐being: A Meta‐analysis (2020, background): “It is the personal (Richards, 2007; Runco, 1996, 2007), everyday (Richards, 1990, 2007), little-c (Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009), or primary creativity (Runco & Beghetto, 2019) that benefits all regardless of the context or problem at hand (e.g., cooking, knitting, furniture design, and home…”
Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom (2015, background): “As we have elaborated elsewhere (Kaufman & Baer, 2005; Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009, 2013a, 2013b), creative people tend to respond better to trauma and stressful situations, be in a happier mood, advance higher in their jobs, and generally are more likely to succeed.”
Do People Recognize the Four Cs? Examining Layperson Conceptions of Creativity (2013, methodology): “The first factor was labeled Big/Pro/little (BPLC), reflecting creativity that other people recognize as creative, and spans the categories of little-c, Pro-c, and Big-C creativity (Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009).”
A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological (2020, background): “…tools and means in its unfolding as, on the one hand, even the most common episodes of learning one’s culture lead to new understandings (what Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009, referred to as mini-c creativity) and, on the other hand, some creations never get to be properly externalized by the…”
Mapping the Landscape of Creativity Support Tools in HCI (2019, background): “Kaufman and Beghetto’s [91] influential work in creativity research on different forms of creative activities, we know that creative professionals typically develop so-called ‘Pro-c skills,’ “the developmental and effortful progression that represents professional-level expertise in any creative are”
Furious activity vs. understanding: How much expertise is needed to evaluate creative work? (2013, background): “A creative writer may become proficient by formal schooling, informal mentorship, repeated practice, and the metric for being a professional writer (namely, getting published) may vary widely (Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009).”
Creativity and Discovery as Blind Variation: Campbell's (1960) BVSR Model after the Half-Century Mark (2011, background): “A similar distinction is that between little-c (everyday) creativity and Big-C (influential) creativity (Simonton, 2010b; see Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009, for finer distinctions).”
Ingredients of Creativity: Originality and More (2017, background): “…could be more effective and practical for evaluating everyday creative products or ideas (i.e., little-c creativity or everyday creativity, see Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009; Richards, 1993, 2010), whereas the U.S. Patent Office model may work better for the rarer and more socially recognized…”