Creativity across domains : faces of the muse / edited by James C. Kaufman, John Baer.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : How people think, work, and act creatively in diverse domains / James C. Kaufman and John Baer -- The creative process in poets / Jane Piirto -- Flow and the art of fiction / Susan K. Perry -- Acting / R. Keith Sawyer -- Should creativity be a visual arts orphan? / Enid Zimmerman -- Creativity and dance : a call for balance / John I. Morris -- Musical creativity research / Marc Leman -- Domain-specific creativity in the physical sciences / Gregory J. Feist -- Creativity in psychology : on becoming and being a great psychologist / Dean Keith Simonton -- Creativity in computer science / Daniel Saunders and Paul Thagard -- Engineering creativity : a systems concept of functional creativity / David Cropley and Arthur Cropley --- Creativity as a general and a domain-specific ability : the domain of mathematics as an exemplar / Roberta M. Milgram and Nava L. Livne -- Creative problem-solving skills in leadership : direction, actions, and reactions / Michael D. Mumford, Jill M. Strange, Gina Marie Scott, and Blaine P. Gaddis -- Emotions as mediators and as products of creative activity / James R. Averill -- Selective retention processes that create tensions between novelty and value in business domains / Cameron M. Ford and Diane M. Sullivan -- Management : synchronizing different kinds of creativity / Min Basadur -- Creativity in teaching : essential knowledge, skills, and dispositions / Don Ambrose -- The domain generality versus specificity debate : how should it be posed? / Robert J. Sternberg -- The (relatively) generalist view of creativity / Jonathan A. Plucker -- Whence creativity? : overlapping and dual-aspect skills and traits / John Baer and James C. Kaufman -- The amusement park theory of creativity / James C. Kaufman and John Baer.

"Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together various researchers who have studied creative thinkers in different areas, such as the arts, sciences, and communications. This volume explains what is known about the cognitive processes, ways of conceptualizing and solving problems, personality and motivational attributes, guiding metaphors, and work habits or styles that best characterize creative people within the several domains that are covered." "Creativity Across Domains will appeal to creativity researchers and students; cognitive, educational, social, and developmental psychologists; and educated laypeople interested in exploring their own creativity."--Jacket.

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