R. Keith Sawyer

Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation

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Explaining Creativity is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of scientific studies on creativity and innovation. Sawyer discusses not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, business innovation, and creativity in everyday life. Sawyer's approach is interdisciplinary. In addition to examining psychological studies on creativity, he draws on anthropologists' research on creativity in non-Western cultures, sociologists'research on the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity, and cognitive neuroscientists' studies of the brain.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-973757-4
EAN: 9780199737574
Produktnummer: 22184060
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 555 S.
Masse: H25.4 cm x B17.7 cm x D3.2 cm 969 g
Auflage: 2. A.
Gewicht: 969

Über den Autor

R. Keith Sawyer, a professor of psychology, education, and business at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of the world's leading scientific experts on creativity. He combines this scientific expertise with a strong hands-on background in real-world creativity. After receiving his computer science degree from MIT in 1982, he began his career with a two-year stint designing videogames for Atari. In 1990, Dr. Sawyer began his doctoral studies in psychology,studying creativity with Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Dr. Sawyer has also been a jazz pianist for over 20 years, and spent several years playing piano with Chicago improv theater groups.