Creativity in context : update to The social psychology of creativity

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Creativity in context : update to The social psychology of creativity

Teresa M. Amabile

Westview Press, 1996

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 275-301

Includes index

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Volume

: hc ISBN 9780813328270

Description

Updating "The Social Psychology of Creativity", this work incorporates extensive new material to provide a picture of how the motivation for creative behaviour, and creativity itself, can be influenced by the social environment. Teresa Amabile discusses new findings from both her own research and from the work of many others in the field, detailing not only the ways in which creativity can be killed by social-psychological influences, but also the ways in which it can be maintained and stimulated. The author describes an expanded set of methodologies for assessing creativity, and introduces a set of methodologies for assessing the social environment for creativity in non-experimental studies. Throughout, the book maintains a focus on a comprehensive view of creativity - how the social context can influence motivation and how motivation, in conjunction with personal skills and thinking styles, can lead to the expression of creative behaviour within that context.

Table of Contents

  • Understanding and assessing creativity
  • social and environmental influences
  • implications. (Part contents)
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780813330341

Description

This book preserves the original content and provides some insight into recent developments in the social psychology of creativity. It begins to study the ways in which social factors can serve to maintain creativity and cognitive mechanisms by which motivation might have an impact on creativity.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Updated Edition -- Preface to the 1983 Edition -- Understanding and Assessing Creativity -- The Case for a Social Psychology of Creativity -- The Meaning and Measurement of Creativity -- A Consensual Technique for Creativity Assessment -- A Theoretical Framework -- Social and Environmental Influences -- Effects of Evaluation on Creativity -- Effects of Reward and Task Constraint -- Social Facilitation, Modeling, and Motivational Orientation -- Other Social and Environmental Influences -- Implications -- Implications for Enhancing Creativity -- Toward a Comprehensive Psychology of Creativity -- About the Book and Author -- Credits

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