The International Handbook of Creativity

What constitutes a creative person? Is it someone who can perform many tasks innovatively? Is it someone who exhibits creative genius in one area? Is it someone who utilizes her creativity for good and moral causes? Is it someone who uses his creativity to help his company or country succeed? Different cultures have different perspectives on what it means to be creative, yet it is nearly always the American or Western perspective that is represented in the psychological literature. The goal of The International Handbook of Creativity is to present a truly international and diverse set of perspectives on the psychology of human creativity. Distinguished scholars from around the world have written chapters for this book about the history and current state of creativity research and theory in their respective parts of the world. The book presents a wide array of international perspectives and research.

• Provides international perspectives about creativity • A nice companion piece to Sternberg’s book The International Handbook of Intelligence • Most of the research was written in other languages and has never been available in the English language

Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Introduction Robert J. Sternberg; 2. Creativity research in English-speaking countries John Baer and James C. Kaufman; 3. Creativity in Latin America: views from psychology, humanities and the arts David D. Preiss and Katherine Strasser; 4. History of creativity in Spain Cándido Genovard, María Dolores Prieto, María Rosario Bermejo and Carmen Ferrándiz; 5. Past, present, and future perspectives on creativity in France and French-speaking Switzerland Christophe Mouchiroud and Todd I. Lubart; 6. Creativity in Italy Alessandro Antonietti and Cesare Cornoldi; 7. Creativity research in German-speaking countries Siegfried Preiser; 8. Creativity under the Northern Lights: perspectives from Scandinavia Gudmund J. W. Smith and Ingegerd Carlsson; 9. Creativity in Soviet-Russian psychology Olga Stepanossova and Elena L. Grigorenko; 10. Creativity studies in Poland Edward Necka, Magdalena Grohman and Aleksandra Slabosz; 11. Research on creativity in Israel: a chronicle of theoretical and empirical development Roberta M. Milgram and Nava L. Livne; 12. Creativity in Turkey and Turkish-speaking countries Günseli Oral; 13. Development of creativity research in Chinese societies: a comparison of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore Weihua Niu; 14. Creativity - a sudden rising star in Korea In-Soo Choe; 15. Culture and facets of creativity: the Indian experience Girishwar Misra, Ashok K. Srivastava and Indiwar Misra; 16. African perspectives on creativity Elias Mpofu, Kathleen Myambo, Andrew A. Mogaji, Teresa-Anne Mashego and Omar H. Khaleefa; 17. Creativity around the world in 80 ways … but with one destination Dean Keith Simonton; Author index; Subject index.