Encyclopedia of Creativity by Runco, Mark A.; Pritzker, Steven R.;

Long description:

Creativity influences each of our lives and is essential for the advancement of society. The first edition of the successful?Encyclopedia of Creativity helped establish the study of creativity as a field of research in itself. The second edition, published in 2011, was named a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice publication.

Featuringï¿1⁄2232 chapters, acrossï¿1⁄22 volumes, the third edition of this important work provides updated information on the full range of creativity research. There has been an enormous increase in research on the topic throughout the world in many different disciplines. Some areas covered in this edition include the arts and humanities, business, education, mental and physical health, neuroscience, psychology, the creative process and technology.

Fundamental subjects are discussed such as the definition of creativity, the development and expression of creativity across the lifespan, the environmental conditions that encourage or discourage creativity, the relationship of creativity to mental health, intelligence?and?learning styles, and the process of being creative. Creativity is discussed within specific disciplines including acting, architecture, art, dance, film, government, interior design, magic, mathematics, medicine, photography, science, sports, tourism and writing.

A wide range of topics are covered. Here is a partial overview by topic:

Business and organizational creativity: Advertising, Creative Economies, Creativity Consulting and Coaching, Corporate Creativity, Creativity Exercises, Entrepreneurship, Group Dynamics, Innovation, Leadership, Management of Creative People, Patents, Teams, and Training.

The Cognitive Aspects of Creativity: Altered and Transitional States, Analogies, Attention, Breadth of Attention, Cognitive Style, Divergent Thinking, Flow and Optimal Experience, Knowledge, Logic and Reasoning, Metacognition, Mental Models, Memory, Metaphors, Mind Wandering, Mindfulness, Problem-Finding, Problem-Solving, and Remote Associates.

The Creative Process: Attribution, Constraints, Discovery, Insight, Inspiration, Intentionality, Motivation, Risk-Taking, and Tolerance for Ambiguity.

Education: Children's Creativity, , Education, Intelligence, Knowledge, Metacognition, Play, Prodigies, Programs And Courses, Talent And Teaching Creativity.

Neuroscience Research: Cellular Matter, Grey Matter, Cellular Density; EEG, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Fmri), Music and The Brain, Pupillometry, Systems, The Cerebellum and Transcranial Electrical Stimulation.

Psychology: The Big 5 Personality Characteristics, Bipolar Mood Disorders, Childhood Trauma, Depression, Deviance, Dreams, Emotions, Expressive Arts, Grit, Introversion, Jungian Theory, Mad Genius Controversy, Openness, Schizotypy, Suicide, Therapy and Counseling Trauma and Transcendence and Transforming Illness and Visual Art.

Social Aspects of Creativity: Awards, Birth Order, Criticism, Consensual Assessment, Diversity, Eminence, Families, Friendships and Social Networks, Geeks, Mentors, Millennials, Networking, Rewards, And Sociology.

Society and Creativity: Awards, Climate For Creativity, Cross-Cultural Creativity, Destruction Of Creativity, Law And Society, Social Psychology, Social Transformation, Voting, War, and Zeitgeist.

Technology: Chats, Computational Creativity, Computerized Text Analysis, Gaming, Memes, Networks and Maps, and Virtual Reality.

Table of Contents:

Acting
ADHD & Autism Spectrum Disorder
Advertising
Aesthetics
Alcohol
Altered and Transitional States
Analogies
Ancient World Conceptualizations of Creativity
Animal Creativity
Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Arts Bias
Art/Science
Associative Theory
Asynchronicity
Attention
Attribution
Avocations
Awards
Behavioral View of Creativity
Bipolar Mood Disorders
Birth Order
Breadth of Attention
Childhood Trauma: Shadow of Darkness
Children's Creativity
Climate
Cognitive Style
Collaboration
Commoditizing Creativity
Compensatory Advantage
Competition
Componential Models of Creativity
Composers
Confucianism
Consensual Assessment
Contrarianism
Corporate Creativity
Craft
Creative Class and the Creative Economy
Creative Destruction
Creative Environments, Conditions, and Settings
Creativity and Destruction
Creativity and Perspective
Creativity and the Future
Creativity Complex
Creativity Gap
Creativity Models
Creativity Training
Criterion Problem
Criticism
Crowdsourcing
Culinary Creativity
Cultural Diversity
Dance
Default Network
Definitions of Creativity
Developmental Trends in Creative Abilities and Potentials
Deviance
Dialectical Thinking: Further Implications for Creativity
Dignity
Discovery
Disruptive Innovation
Divergent Thinking
Diversifying Experiences
Diversity
Domains of Creativity
Dreams
Drugs
Dual Process
Dynamic Creative Process
Eccentricity
Economic Perspectives on Creativity
Education
Eminence
Emotion/Affect
Engineering: The Ultimate Expression of Creativity?
Enhancement of Creativity
Entrepreneurship
Everyday Creativity
Evolving Systems Approach
Expertise
Expressive Arts
Failure
Families
Film
Flexibility
Flow
Four Ps of Creativity: Person, Process, Press, and Product
Friendships and Social Networks
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and the Neural Correlates of Artistic Creative Production
Geeks
Genius and Greatness
Giftedness
Good Work in Pre-collegiate Education
Government
Group Creativity
Health
Historical Conceptions of Creativity
Historiometry
Humor
Hyperspace
Idea Density
Idea Evaluation
Imagery
Imagination
Implicit Theories
Improvisation
Incremental and Radical Creativity
Incubation
Innovation
Insight
Inspiration
Intelligence
Intentionality
Interdisciplinarity Creativity
Interior Design
Janusian, Homospatial, and Sep-Con Articulation Processes
Jungian Theory
Knowledge
Law and Society
Leadership
Learning Differences
Logic and Reasoning
Longevity
Longitudinal Studies
Mad Genius Controversy
Magic
Magic Synthesis
Management of Creative People
Mathematics
Matthew, Pygmalion, and Founder Effects
Measurement: Computerized Creativity Testing and Scoring
Measurement: Creative Products
Measurement: Self-Report Creativity
Medicine
Memory
Mental Models
Mentors
Meta-Analyses
Metacognition
Meta-Creativity
Metaphor
Millennials
Mind Wandering
Mindfulness
Mindset and Einstellung Effect
Moral Issues
Motivation
Multiple Discovery
Music
Neuroscience: Cellular Level, Gray Matter, Cellular Density
Neuroscience: Cerebellum's Predominant Role in Creativity
Neuroscience: EEG
Neuroscience: Executive Functions
Neuroscience: Music and the Brain
Neuroscience: Pupillometry and Creativity
Neuroscience: Transcranial Electrical Stimulation
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Chaos Theory, and Creativity
Nonprofit Creativity: Essential for a Healthy Sector
Novels
Novelty
Opera
Organizational Creativity
Paracosms
Paradoxical Creativity
Participatory Creativity
Patents
Personal Creativity
Personality: Big Five Personality Characteristics
Personality: Creative Self-Efficacy
Personality: Grit
Personality: Introversion
Personality: Openness
Personality: Risk-Taking
Photography
Physics
Play
Poetry
Politics
Polymathy
Pragmatism
Problem Finding
Prodigies
Psycholinguistics
Regional Creativity: Asia
Regional Creativity: Cross-cultural Differences in Creativity
Regional Creativity: Cultural Expressions in South America
Regional Creativity: Research Publications by Region
Remote Associates
Research: Qualitative
Resilience and Adaptation
Rewards
Schizotypy
Science
Self-actualization
Serendipity
Social Creativity
Social Innovation
Social Transformation
Sociology
Sport
Stress
Suicide
Surprise
Systems Theories and Approaches
Tactics and Strategies
Talent
Teaching Creativity
Teams
Technology: Computational Creativity
Technology: Computerized Text Analysis
Technology: Creativity in Chats
Technology: Gaming
Technology: Memes (Units of Culture)
Technology: Networks and Maps in Creativity Research, 1999-2018
Testing/Measurement/Assessment
Theories of Creativity
Time
Tolerance for Ambiguity
Tourism
Training, Facilitating, Consulting, and Coaching
Transforming Illness and Visual Art
Trauma and Creative Transcendence
Unconscious
Utah Conferences
Virtual Reality
Visual Perception
Voting
War
Writers
Zeitgeist
Zen