The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Personality Research

This book examines the relationship between personality and the impact it has on creativity in individuals.

Gregory J. Feist (Edited by), Roni Reiter-Palmon (Edited by), James C. Kaufman (Edited by)

9781107107595, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 March 2017

436 pages
26 x 18.4 x 2.7 cm, 0.94 kg

'… the individual chapters … are clearly written, with thorough scholarship and well-defined points of contact with the content of other chapters. All told, the book's scope is pretty impressive, covering the main lines of scholarship and justifying the editors' assessment of this research nexus as vibrant and healthy.' Aaron Kozbelt, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

As individual subjects, creativity and personality have been the focus of much research and many publications. This Cambridge Handbook is the first to bring together these two topics and explores how personality and behavior affects creativity. Contributors from around the globe present cutting-edge research about how personality traits and motives make creative behavior more likely. Many aspects of personality and behavior are examined in the chapters, including genius, emotions, psychopathology, entrepreneurship, and multiculturalism, to analyse the impact of these on creativity. The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Personality Research will be the definitive resource for researchers, students and academics who study psychology, personality, and creativity.

1. Introduction. The personal side of creativity: individual differences and the creative process Gregory J. Feist, Roni Reiter-Palmon and James C. Kaufman
Part I. Process and Structure of the Creative Personality: 2. Openness/intellect: the core of the creative personality Victoria C. Oleynick, Colin De Young, Elizabeth Hyde, Scott Barry Kaufman, Roger Beaty and Paul Silvia
3. Sweet dreams are made of this: the role of openness in creativity and brain networks Rex Jung and Christine Meadows
4. The curious dynamic between openness and interests in creativity Sang Eun Woo, Melissa Keith, Rong Su, Rachel Saef and Scott Parrigon
5. Personality, behavioral thresholds and the creative scientist Gregory J. Feist
6. Creative self-concept: a surface characteristic of creative personality Maciek Karwowski and Izabela Labuda
7. Where do diversifying experiences fit in the study of personality, creativity, and career success? Rodica Damian
8. Rethinking the mutlicultural experiences-creativity link: the interactive perspective on environmental variability and dispositional plasticity Jen-Ho Chang, Jenny C. Su and Hsueh-Chih Chen
9. An integrative approach to the creative personality: beyond the Big Five paradigm Guillaume Fürst and Todd Lubart
Part II. Creativity and Personality: Emotion, Motivation and Psychopathology: 10. Creativity and personality: nuances of domain and mood Christa Taylor, Alexander S. McKay and James C. Kaufman
11. Emotions and creativity: from states to traits and emotion abilities Zorana Ivcevic and Jessica Hoffmann
12. Innovation motivation: a social learning model of originality Stephen Joy
13. Creative genius and psychopathology: creativity as positive and negative personality Dean Keith Simonton
14. Personality traits, personality disorders and creativity Adrian Furnham
Part III. Creativity and Personality: Measurement and Social Influences: 15. Creativity and the Big Five personality traits: is the relationship dependent on the creativity measure? Jason Hornberg and Roni Reiter-Palmon
16. What are funny people like? Exploring the crossroads in humor ability and openness to experience Emily C. Nusbaum and Paul Silvia
17. Much more than selfies: autophotography, individuality, and creativity Stephen J. Dollinger
18. Can teams have a creative personality? Rob Litchfield, Lucy Gilson and Christina Shalley
19. The entrepreneurial personality: individual differences and social capital in work-related innovation Reece Akhtar, Gokran Ahmetoglu and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
20. Effects of creativity training programs on individual characteristics Denise Fleith
21. Creativity and personality research: themes and future directions Patricia O'Rourke, James C. Kaufman, Gregory J. Feist and Roni Reiter-Palmon.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Behavioural theory [Behaviourism JMAL], Psychological theory & schools of thought [JMA], Psychology [JM]