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Barron was an American psychologist known for his pioneering research on creativity and personality.
Known for: The Creative Self: Various Psychological Perspectives
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The Creative Self: Various Psychological Perspectives
This volume, first published in 1988, brings together sixteen chapters by leading psychologists exploring the richness and diversity of psychological approaches to creativity. It examines the creative process, personality, and environment from multiple theoretical perspectives, offering a comprehensive view of how creativity manifests in human behavior and thought.
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Historical Foundations
We begin with roots that stretch back to the earliest days of psychology, when creativity was still a poetic term rather than a scholarly construct. The psychoanalytic thinkers, led by Freud and his followers, regarded creativity as the channeling of unconscious impulses into symbolic form. The arti...
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Personality and Creativity
Every creative act carries the signature of a person. For decades, my own research and that of others, such as MacKinnon and Guilford, has shown that certain personality traits consistently distinguish the creative from the conventional. Openness to experience, tolerance for ambiguity, independence ...
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