Publications

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Other Unpublished Work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

1 Oct 1981
Conference Presentation

Creativity: Some Stories and a Model

Keywords: Creativity

01 Nov 1979
Conference Presentation

Exploring the Relationship Between Fantasy and Creativity

By: M. L. Stubbs and Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity

1 Sep 1979
Conference Presentation

An Examination of the Effects of Verbal Reinforcement on Creativity

By: S. Berglas, Teresa M. Amabile and M. Handel

Keywords: Creativity

February 1979
Article

Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity

Examined the conditions under which the imposition of an extrinsic constraint upon performance of an activity can lead to decrements in creativity. 95 female undergraduates worked on an art activity either with or without the expectation of external evaluation. In... View Details

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

1 Oct 1978
Conference Presentation

Stifling Creativity

Keywords: Creativity

1 Apr 1978
Conference Presentation

Effects of Evaluation Expectation on Artistic Creativity

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Creativity

Research Summary

3D Negotiaton

By: James K. Sebenius

In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details

Research Summary

Creativity and Innovation