Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation

By R. Sawyer. 2006

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Group Creativity and Innovation: A Motivated Information Processing Perspective (2011, background): “Creativity and innovation are terms often used interchangeably and, as others before us have noted, doing so is missing important points (e.g., Mumford & Gustafson, 1988; Sawyer, 2006).”
The Social Brain, Language, and Goal-Directed Collective Thinking: A Social Conception of Cognition and Its Implications for Understanding How We Think, Teach, and Learn (2013, background): “Several studies take a sociocultural theoretical perspective, in which culturally framed ways of communicating and the use of cultural tools are considered important (Miell & Littleton, 2004; Paulus & Nijstad, 2003; Sawyer, 2012; Sawyer & DeZutter, 2009).”
Extending Sociocultural Theory to Group Creativity (2012, background): “A sociocultural orientation suggests that psychological accounts of creativity are limited and that a complete explanation of creativity requires scientists to bring together studies at both the individual and the group levels of analysis (Cole and Engestrom 2007; Sawyer 2006b).”
Multicultural experience enhances creativity: the when and how. (2008, background): “However, the psychological literature now boasts a wealth of evidence delineating the psychological factors that facilitate creativity; elements of personality, affect, cognition, and motivation can either facilitate or impair creativity (see Amabile, 1996; Csikszentmihalyi, 1996; Sawyer, 2006).”
Creativity: The Role of Unconscious Processes in Idea Generation and Idea Selection. (2012, background): “In the scientific literature, ‘creativity’ is defined as the process of bringing into being something that is both new and useful (e.g., Amabile, 1996; Sawyer, 2006; Sternberg & O’Hara, 1999).”
Transdisciplinarity and Art Integration: Toward a New Understanding of Art-Based Learning across the Curriculum (2014, background): “…by art integration specialists to be germane to all disciplines (Donahue & Stuart, 2010) In a similar vein, many creative strategies visible in contemporary art (Marshall, 2010) also apply to research in science (Miller, 2000) and creativity in all areas of inquiry (Cropley, 1992; Sawyer, 2006)”
Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought (2012, background): “Unlike divergent thinking, which many critics contend is unrealistic and artificial (Sawyer, 2006; Simonton, 1999), metaphors are a common and valued form of creativity in speech and writing (Plotnik, 2007).”
Creativity and Well‐being: A Meta‐analysis (2020, background): “Some researchers challenged the mad-genius hypothesis and considered it a myth (Kaufman, 2014; Sawyer, 2012), and some others questioned the methodological quality of the presented empirical evidence (Dietrich, 2014; Rothenberg, 1990; Schlesinger, 2009).”
Artificial intelligence versus Maya Angelou: Experimental evidence that people cannot differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetry (2020, background): “Hence, creative writing has long been considered an impregnable task for algorithms (Keith, 2012; Penrose, 1990).”