Creativity, Intelligence, and Personality
| Autor: | Frank Barron, David M Harrington |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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| Zdroj: | Annual Review of Psychology. 32:439-476 |
| ISSN: | 1545-2085 0066-4308 |
| DOI: | 10.1146/annurev.ps.32.020181.002255 |
| Popis: | ivergent thinking; creativity in women; hemispheric specialization opposing right brain to left as the source of intuition, metaphor, and imagery; the contribution of altered states of consciousness to creative thinking; an organismic interpretation of the relationship of creativity to personality and intelligence; new methods of analysis of biographical material and a new emphasis on psychohistory; the relationship of thought disorder to originality; the inheritance of intellectual and personal traits important to creativity; the enhancement of creativity by training; these have been the main themes emerging in research on creativity since the last major reviews of the field (Stein 1968; Dellas & Gaier 1970; Freeman, Butcher & Christie 1971; Gilchrist 1972). Much indeed has happened in the field of creativity research since 1950, when J. P. Guilford in his parting address as president of the American Psychological Association pointed out that up to that time only 186 out of 121,000 entries in Psychological Abstracts dealt with creative imagination. By 1956, when the first national research conference on creativity was organized by C. W. Taylor at the University of Utah (under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation), this number had doubled. By 1962, when Scientific Creativity (compiled by C. W. Taylor and F. Barron) went to press with a summary of the |
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