Affect, Creative Experience, And Psychological Adjustment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780876309179)

Previously neglected, more and more affect and creativity is recognized as an area that is important and exciting area to investigate. This book presents the very latest ideas and research by leaders in the field about the role of affect in the creative process. Affect, Creative Experience and Psychological Adjustment is an arena where new theories and concepts can be presented, research findings compared and discussed, methodological issues debated, and future research outlined. Key questions in affect and creativity focus on identifying specific affective processes that are most important in creativity, discovering the underlying mechanisms that account for the relationships between affect and creativity, exploring differential effects of various types of affect, such as positive and negative affect, on creativity and understanding how these things relate to psychological adjustment. As with any new line of research investigation, there is a fermenting of ideas, speculations, research findings, hunches, methodological issues and tests of theoretical models that evolves into a clear vision of heuristic theoretical models and identification of the most important research questions. This book contributes to that process in the area of affect and creativity.

Author: Sandra W. Russ
ISBN-10: 0876309171
ISBN-13: 9780876309179
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1998
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.30w x 0.77d