Encyclopedia of Creativity

  • Encyclopedia of Creativity
    By Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker

    In each culture the variety ranges from dances easy enough for children and elders to perform to virtuosic ones used by ... By teaching these essentials of performance to students of dance, theater, and opera, she successfully improved ...

  • Encyclopedia of Creativity
    By Steven R. Pritzker

    When scientific innovations involve ideologically conservative implications—as occurred, for example, with vitalistic doctrines during the 17th and 18th centuries—firstborns possess an even greater intellectual advantage over laterborns ...

  • Encyclopedia of Creativity

    The first edition of the successful Encyclopedia of Creativity served to establish the study of creativity is a field in itself.

  • Encyclopedia of Creativity
    By Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker

    The key concept in the area of psychoanalytic theory and creativity is primary process thinking. 1. Primary Process Thinking Sigmund Freud in 1915 first conceptualized primary process thought as an early, primitive system of thought ...

  • Encyclopedia of Creativity
    By Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker

    Forks, phonographs, and hot air balloons: A field guide to inventive thinking. New York: Oxford University Press. Weber, R. J., & Perkins, D. N. (1992). Inventive minds: Creativity in technology. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Encyclopedia of Creativity
    By Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker

    Intellectual skills and knowledge can be thought of as the “mental” resources, which can be used to find creative new ideas and solutions. In dealing with failure as part of a creative process then, the greater the intellectual skills ...

  • Encyclopedia of Creativity: A-I
    By Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker

    This completely updated and revised 2nd edition encompasses the definition of creativity, the development and expression of creativity across the lifespan, the environmental conditions that encourage or discourage creativity and creativity ...

  • Encyclopedia of Creativity

    The first edition of the successful Encyclopedia of Creativity, Two Volume Set served to establish the study of creativity is a field in itself.