Creativity In Context

Taylor & Francis

This book preserves the original content and provides some insight into recent developments in the social psychology of creativity. It begins to study the ways in which social factors can serve to maintain creativity and cognitive mechanisms by which motivation might have an impact on creativity. > Creativity in Context is an update of The Social Psychology of Creativity, a classic text for researchers, students, and other interested readers. Creativity in Context incorporates extensive new material, going far beyond the original to provide a comprehensive picture of how the motivation for creative behavior, and creativity itself, can be infl > Part 1 Understanding and Assessing Creativity -- 1 The Case for a Social Psychology of Creativity -- 2 The Meaning and Measurement of Creativity -- 3 A Consensual Technique for Creativity Assessment -- 4 A Theoretical Framework -- Part 2 Social and Environmental Influences -- 5 Effects of Evaluation on Creativity -- 6 Effects of Rew.