Amabile 新作：Creativity

Beth A. Hennessey & Teresa M. Amabile
Annual Review of Psychology, Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2010. 61:569–98

The psychological study of creativity is essential to human progress. If
strides are to be made in the sciences, humanities, and arts, we must
arrive at a far more detailed understanding of the creative process, its
antecedents, and its inhibitors. This review, encompassing most subspecialties
in the study of creativity and focusing on twenty-first-century
literature, reveals both a growing interest in creativity among psychologists
and a growing fragmentation in the field. To be sure, research into
the psychology of creativity has grown theoretically and methodologically
sophisticated, and researchers have made important contributions
from an ever-expanding variety of disciplines. But this expansion has not
come without a price. Investigators in one subfield often seem unaware
of advances in another. Deeper understanding requires more interdisciplinary
research, based on a systems view of creativity that recognizes
a variety of interrelated forces operating at multiple levels.