Creating creativity: reflections from fieldwork

Glăveanu, Vlad Petre (2011) Creating creativity: reflections from fieldwork. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 45 (1). pp. 100-115. ISSN 1932-4502

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Abstract

The present article addresses the question of ‘When can we say something is creative?’ and, in answering it, takes a critical stand towards past and present scientific definitions of creativity. It challenges an implicit assumption in much psychological theory and research that creativity exists as an ‘objective’ feature of persons or products, universally recognised and independent of social agreement and cultural systems of norms and beliefs. Focusing on everyday life creative outcomes, the article includes both theoretical accounts and empirical examples from a research exploring creativity evaluations in the context of folk art. In the end, a multi-layered perspective of creativity assessment emerges, integrating dimensions such as newness and originality, value and usefulness, subjective reception and cultural reception of creative products. Implications for how we understand and study creativity are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.springer.com/psychology/journal/12124
Additional Information:	© 2011 Springer
Divisions:	Social Policy
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	21 Oct 2011 10:37
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2024 02:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/39030

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