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  Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (Paperback) By (author) R. Keith Sawyer

  

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  Short Description for Explaining CreativityIn addition to psychological studies of creativity, this work includes research by anthropologists on creativity in non-Western cultures, and research by sociologists about the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity. It emphasizes on the role of collaboration and context in the creative process.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Published: 23 February 2006
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages
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  • Categories: Psychology | Social, Group Or Collective Psychology | Cognition & Cognitive Psychology
  • ISBN 13: 9780195304459 ISBN 10: 0195304454
  • Sales rank: 368,464

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• Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. In the last 50 years, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly studied creativity, and we now know more about creativity than at any point in history. It considers not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, and business innovation. Until about a decade ago, creativity researchers tended to focus on highly valued activities like fine art painting and Nobel prize winning science. Sawyer brings this research up to date by including movies, music videos, cartoons, video games, hypertext fiction, and computer technology. For example, this is the first book on creativity to include studies of performance and improvisation. Sawyer draws on the latest research findings to show the importance of collaboration and context in all of these creative activities.Today's science of creativity is interdisciplinary; in addition to psychological studies of creativity the book includes research by anthropologists on creativity in non-Western cultures, and research by sociologists about the situation, contexts, and networks of creative activity. It brings these approaches together within the sociocultural approach to creativity pioneered by Howard Becker, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Howard Gardner. The sociocultural approach moves beyond the individual to consider the social and cultural contexts of creativity, emphasizing the role of collaboration and context in the creative process.