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Principles for a Cultural Psychology of Creativity
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In this article, a cultural-psychological approach to the study of human creativity is proposed. But the authors focus on the long past of individualistic accounts of creativity (the lonely genius) and the short history of psychological understandings (the creative individual).Abstract:
This article focuses on a novel theoretical paradigm emerging in the study of human creativity: the cultural-psychological approach. It starts by differentiating between the long past of individualistic accounts of creativity (the lonely genius) and the short history of psychological understandings (the creative individual). The social and the cross-cultural psychology of creativity are both considered, together with their advantages and current limitations. Creativity is generally conceptualized as a process of artifact generation and five broad principles for a cultural psychology of creativity are presented. In clarifying the nature of creativity, a special consideration is given to the relationship between individuals, creativity, and culture. Finally, the role of the community in fostering and assessing creativity is suggested as a more realistic solution to the individual—society debate.read more
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Paradigms in the study of creativity: Introducing the perspective of cultural psychology
TL;DR: The cultural psychology of creativity as discussed by the authors investigates the sociocultural roots and dynamics of all our creative acts and employs a tetradic framework of self, community, new artifact and existing artifacts in its conceptualization of creativity.
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Potential Originality and Effectiveness: The Dynamic Definition of Creativity
TL;DR: In this article, a new theoretical framework for the study of creativity is proposed, which is turned from static to dynamic through the introduction of the concept of potential originality and effectiveness.
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Creativity as a Sociocultural Act.
TL;DR: In this paper, the creative process is conceptualized as a form of action by which actors, materially and symbolically, alone and in collaboration with others, move between different positions and, in this process, imaginatively construct new perspectives on their course of action which afford greater reflexivity and the emergence of novelty.
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Creativity: The Magic Synthesis
TL;DR: Professor Arieti, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and recognized authority on schizophrenia, has brought to bear his wide experience with psychotic individuals and his extensive knowledge of literature and art to answer many questions about creativity.
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Playing and Reality
TL;DR: Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living and of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively and to find life worth living as mentioned in this paper.
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
TL;DR: Csikszentmihalyi as mentioned in this paper used 100 interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists to politicians and business leaders, poets and artists, as well as his 30 years of research on the subject to explore the creative process.
Cultural psychology: a once and future discipline?
TL;DR: White as discussed by the authors proposed a multilevel methodology for cross-cultural psychology, including cognitive development, culture, and schooling from cross-culture psychology to second psychology, and Cognitive Analysis of Behavior in Context Creating Model Activity Systems.
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Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline
TL;DR: This book discusses cross-Cultural Psychology, Cognitive Development, Culture, and Schooling, and a Multilevel Methodology for Cultural Psychology.
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Creativity in context : Content, cost, chance and collection in the organization of the film industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe theoretical literatures with empirical literature on the film industry, in order to analyze creativity at the industry level, and provide an analytical framework that may be used for understanding different "models" of filmmaking in future comparative work.