CONTENTS List of Contributors ... ⅶ Preface ... ⅸ PART Ⅰ INTRODUCTION 1 The Concept of Creativity : Prospects and Paradigms / Robert J. Sternberg ; Todd I. Lubart ... 3 2 A History of Research on Creativity / Robert S. Albert ; Mark A. Runco ... 16 PART Ⅱ METHODS FOR STUDYING CREATIVITY 3 Psychometric Approaches to the Study of Human Creativity / Jonathan A. Plucker ; Joseph S. Renzulli ... 35 4 Experimental Studies of Creativity / Mark A. Runco ; Shawn Okuda Sakamoto ... 62 5 The Case Study Method and Evolving Systems Approach for Understanding Unique Creative People at Work / Howard E. Gruber ; Doris B. Wallace ... 93 6 Creativity from a Historiometric Perspective / Dean Keith Simonton ... 116 PART Ⅲ ORGINS OF CREATIVITY 7 Biological Bases of Creativity / Colin Martindale ... 137 8 Evolving Creative Minds ; Stories and Mechanisms / Charles J. Lumsden ... 153 9 The Development of Creativity / David Henry Feldman ... 169 PART Ⅳ CREATIVITY, THE SELF, AND THE ENVIRONMENT 10 Creative Cognition / Thomas B.Ward ; Steven M. Smith ; Ronald A. Finke ... 189 11 From Case Studies to Robust Generlizations : An Approach to the Study of Creativity / Emma Policastro ; Howard Gardner ... 213 12 Creativity and Knowledge : A Challenge to Theories / Robert W. Weisberg ... 226 13 Creativity and Interlligence / Robert J. Sternberg ; Linda A. O'Hara ... 251 14 The Influence of Personality on Artistic and Scientific Creativity / Gregory J. Feist ... 273 15 Motivation and Creativity / Mary Ann Collins ; Teresa M. Amabile ... 297 16 Implications of a Systems Perspective for the Study of Creativity / Mihaly Csikszentimihalyi ... 313 PART Ⅴ SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVITY 17 Creativity Across Cultures / Todd I. Lubart ... 339 18 Computer Models of Creativity / Margaret A. Boden ... 351 19 Organizational Creativity / Wendy M. Williams ; Lana T. Yang ... 373 20 Enhancing Creativity / Raymond S. Nickerson ... 392 21 Prodigies and Creativity Michael / J. A. Howe ... 431 PART Ⅵ CONCLUSION 22 Fifty Years of Crativity Research / Richard E. Mayer ... 449 Author Index ... 461 Subject Index ... 479