If you like this post, you’re going to love my book! Check it out: Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration I started this blog in April 2007, and you would never guess which of my blog posts gets the most hits: It’s a post from April, 2008, reporting on a study that seemed to show… Read More The Apple Logo
The U.S. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has just released a report titled “How Art Works.” It announces a new five-year research agenda, to analyze the benefits of the arts to society–individual benefits, community benefits, and economic benefits. The core of the report is a new “system map” (see graphic below), and each research… Read More How Art Works
I just came across a fascinating article*, published in 1948, describing the use of improvisation in personality assessment. Even more fascinating is that the lead author is the famous developmental psychologist, Urie Bronfenbrenner, who’s not really known for this type of research. (He’s probably most famous for co-founding the U.S. Head Start program in the 1960s… Read More The Secret History of Improvisation in World War II
Today I was thrilled to read an enthusiastic review* of my book Explaining Creativity, by Professor James Kaufman and Alexander McKay. Explaining Creativity is the second edition of a book I published in 2006, as a textbook overview of the field of creativity research. Since 2006, there’s been a lot of new research, so this… Read More A Great Review of Explaining Creativity
I’ve just finished writing my latest book, which is filled with advice for how to be more creative. The title is Zig Zag: The surprising path to greater creativity. To prepare to write Zig Zag, I read every existing creativity advice book…and there are a LOT of them! Here are my favorite creativity advice books, the… Read More Best Creativity Advice Books
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