Psychology & Psychiatry : Cognitive Psychology

''Organizations will not be in the phone book five to seven years from now unless they understand the significance of creativity and creative leadership. Rowe’s useful and readable book provides rich insights about how creativity affects the bottom line.'' —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor and co-author of Geeks and Geezers , Harvard Press. ''In Creative Intelligence , Alan Rowe makes a compelling case that creativity is essential for success in today’s complex, rapidly changing world, and that all of us can discover and unlock our creative potential. He presents a clear and practical roadmap for how we can understand, measure, and apply our creative capabilities. Moreover, Rowe shows how leaders can develop creative talent and support creativity throughout their organizations. This book is a must read for anyone seeking creative solutions to life’s difficult and messy problems.'' —Tom Cummings, University of Southern California School of Management. '' Creative Intelligence convinces you that you do possess creativity. It shows you how to determine the types you have, and encourages you to do something with your talents.'' —Gerald Nadler, IBM Chair Emeritus in Engineering Management, University of Southern California, and co-author of the bestselling Breakthrough Thinking. Now’s the time to tap your hidden creativity, and unleash more of it in the people around you. One book will show you how— Creative Intelligence . Begin by evaluating yourself with the world’s most advanced psychological test for assessing creativity. Discover your strengths. Uncover your potential. Then, learn from the world’s most creative individuals as you transform your potential into reality. Along the way, you’ll discover techniques for strengthening your intuition and your imagination...your receptiveness to innovation...even your ability to inspire. Creativity is power. Take that power into your hands with Creative I more...

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How do scientists use analogies and other processes to break away from old theories and generate new ones? This book documents such methods through the analysis of video tapes of scientifically trained experts thinking aloud while working on unfamiliar problems. Some aspects of creative scientific thinking are difficult to explain, such as the power of analogies, the use of physical intuition, and the enigmatic ability to learn from thought experiments. The book examines the hypothesis that these processes are based on imagistic mental simulation as an underlying mechanism. This allows the analysis of insight (a oeAha a ) episodes of creative theory formation. Advanced processes examined include specialized conserving transformations, Gedanken experiments, and adjusted levels of divergence in thinking. Student interviews are used to show that students have natural abilities for many of these basic reasoning and model construction processes and that this has important implications for expanding instructional theories of conceptual change and inquiry. "I regard this work as the most comprehensive account ever attempted to show how imagistic, analogic, and sensory-motor representations participate in creative thinking." Professor Ryan Tweney more...

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Explores the possible brain mechanisms which underlie creativity, by reviewing the evidence and putting forward fresh ideas. This work discusses the relationships between creativity and intelligence, brain anatomy, neuropharmacology, addiction, handedness, sex differences, and mood states such as depression. more...

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In work environments world-wide, whether simple or complex, the ways in which people think, do their jobs, and interface with other human beings grow out of their experiences in the groups of which they are or have been a part. How these influences affect their performance and human interfacing in work environments throughout the world is the subject of cultural ergonomics. In this volume, distinguished scientists explore these cultural influences in relation to significant current concerns of ergonomics and human factors. These include scientific-philosophical considerations, aircraft safety, maritime safety, cross-national training, effective use of the world-wide web, multinational decision making, third- world industrial development, implementation of technology transfer, and the functioning of multicultural teams. more...

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This book offers an exciting new collection of recent research on the actual processes that humans use when making decisions in their everyday lives and in business situations. more...

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