Publications

Keywords: Creativity; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Decision Choices and Conditions

1 Aug 1985
Conference Presentation

The Creativity Maze

Keywords: Creativity

February 1985
Article

Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers

72 members of the college community who identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing participated in individual laboratory sessions, in which they were asked to write 2 brief poems, to investigate the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Personal Characteristics; Situation or Environment

1985
Chapter

Fostering Creativity

Keywords: Creativity; Situation or Environment

1985
Article

The Personality of Creativity

Keywords: Creativity

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01 Nov 1984
Conference Presentation

Creativity in Research and Development

Keywords: Creativity; Research and Development

01 Jun 1984
Conference Presentation

The Motivation for Creativity

Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives

1 Apr 1984
Conference Presentation

The Effect of Reward and Task Label on Children's Verbal Creativity

By: Beth A. Hennessey and Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity; Spoken Communication; Motivation and Incentives

1984
Article

Children's Artistic Creativity: Effects of Choice in Task Materials

By: T. M. Amabile and J. Gitomer

Preschool boys and girls made collages using a subset of a large array of materials. Half of the children were allowed to choose those materials they would use. For the rest of the children, the choice was made by the experimenter. Children in the no-choice condition... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Social Psychology; Decision Choices and Conditions

1984
Other Unpublished Work

Creative Financing of New York City Projects

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Urban Scope; New York (city, NY)

1 Sep 1983
Conference Presentation

Social Environments that Kill Creativity

Keywords: Creativity

1 Aug 1983
Conference Presentation

Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writing

Keywords: Creativity; Nonverbal Communication; Motivation and Incentives

1983
Book

The Social Psychology of Creativity

Keywords: Creativity

April 1983 (Revised October 2000)
Case

People Express (A)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Debra Whitestone

Describes the start up, strategy, organizational design, and operations over the first eighteen months of the airline. Focuses on the creative use of human resources as an integral part of the business strategy. View Details

Keywords: Human Capital; Air Transportation; Organizational Design; Operations; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Air Transportation Industry; United States

Educators

August 1983
Article

The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Componential Conceptualization

Considers the definition and assessment of creativity and presents a componential framework for conceptualizing this faculty. Including domain-relevant skills, creativity-relevant skills, and task motivation as a set of necessary and sufficient components of... View Details

Keywords: Theory; Social Psychology; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Characteristics

1982
Article

Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting

Girls whose ages ranged from 7 to 11 years made paper collages during 1 of 2 residential parties. Those in the experimental group were competing for prizes, whereas those in the control group expected that the prizes would be raffled off. Artist-judges later rated each... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Competition; Teaching

November 1982
Article

The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique

States that both the popular creativity tests, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Measurement and Metrics; Research; Perception; Theory