Developing Creativity: Resource Links
In researching articles for my various sites, I come across many helpful resource sites and articles on creativity research, innovation and developing creativity.
Here are a few.
Creativity at Work: Developing creativity and innovation in organizations
Founder: Linda Naiman – a creativity and innovation consultant. “Our focus is on leadership and team development, creativity, collaboration, and cultivating environments that foster innovation.”
And All That Jazz – “A creativity researcher’s take on the highs and lows of pop culture and the arts.”
By James C. Kaufman, Ph.D., a creativity researcher and Associate Professor of Psychology at California State University, San Bernardino.
One of his articles:
Too much novelty, not enough appropriateness
Cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.
Articles on creativity (listed on his site)
Also see his blog on The Huffington Post
> Current articles:
- Are Narcissists Better at Reading Minds?
- What Happens When the IQ Test Taker Becomes the IQ Test Constructor?
- The Need to Believe in the Ability of Disability
- Confidence Matters Just as Much as Ability
- Who Is Currently Identified as Gifted in the United States?
His Psychology Today blog: Beautiful Minds
> Current articles:
- Are Narcissists Better at Reading Minds?
Is there a dark side to theory of mind?read more - How Convergent and Divergent Thinking Foster Creativity
What happens when the IQ test taker becomes the IQ test constructor? read more - The Need to Believe in the Ability of Disability
Our society has clear expectations regarding students who don’t fit the norm.read more - Must One Risk Madness to Achieve Genius?
Must one risk getting lost in the sea of madness in order to reach the lone island of genius?read more - Educational Psychologist Kevin McGrew: An IQ Test Maker Who Goes Beyond IQ
IQ test maker Kevin McGrew on IQ testing and the need to go beyond IQ.read more
The Creativity Post – “a non-profit web platform committed to sharing the very best content on creativity, in all of its forms: from scientific discovery to philosophical debate, from entrepreneurial ventures to educational reform, from artistic expression to technological innovation – in short, to all the varieties of the human experience that creativity brings to life.
Milena Z. Fisher, PhD, Co-founder / President; Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, Co-founder / Executive Director.
> Three sample posts:
Why Daydreamers are More Creative
By Scott Barry Kaufman
Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking
By Michael Michalko
3 Ideas to Prevent Schools from Killing Creativity, Curiosity, and Critical Thinking
By Dr. Todd B. Kashdan
> Current posts:
- Talent or Practice – What Matters More?
A variety of perspectives on the origins of greatness. - Creative Explosions, or Loïe in the Laboratory
The story of early twentieth century dancer Loie Fuller tells us the thinkering with creative results is not just for scientists and engineers. - It’s The Age of Big Data: That’s Why Math Counts!
These are the kids who are going to help invent our future. Let's make sure that we help them. - Allow Your Ideas to Have Sex with Other Ideas to Create New Ideas
Creative geniuses form more novel combinations than the merely talented. Recommended techniques on how to combine ideas and parts of ideas. - The Miserable Marriage Puzzle
Leaving your husband can be a good solution!
Life as Art – “How our world shapes who we are and how who we are shapes our world”
Psychology Today blog by Shelley Carson, Ph.D., “an instructor and researcher at Harvard University, where she teaches creativity and abnormal psychology.”
Two of her articles:
The New Year, Time Travel, and the Essence of Creativity
Plagiarism and Its Effect on Creative Work
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Mindbloggling – “Current ideas about cultural evolution and the creative processes that power it.”
Psychology Today blog by Liane Gabora, Ph.D.
Two of her articles:
How Creative Ideas Take Shape by Liane Gabora, Ph.D.
Are Effective Leaders Creative?
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Finding the Next Einstein: Why Smart is Relative – “discusses research findings in areas such as intelligence, creativity, psychology and education, touches upon multiple issues surrounding the identification and development of intellectual and creative talent, and explores how these issues might be relevant to what’s going on in the world.”
Psychology Today blog by Jonathan Wai, Ph.D., a psychologist, writer, and research scientist at Duke University.
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Psychology Today blogs on creativity
About twenty writers, including some of the above.
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Creativity enhancement articles – “Perspectives and strategies to increase creative ideas and expression.”
This is part of my own articles database, with hundreds of titles by multiple authors.
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Neural network image from article “The Biology of Learning,” by Gregory Kellett, on the blog of Lumosity brain training. For more about it, see my post Better Thinking: Brain Games For Cognitive Training.
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