Psychology of Creativity

The study manual written by the team of authors under the leadership of Todda Lubart, a systematic presentation of theoretical and practical issues of creativity, or creative thinking of a person. The book contains a summary of modern ideas about creativity, about the creative process and its development in children and adults, about the connection of creative ability with the level of intelligence, with personal and emotional-willed human qualities, as well as psychopathology. A significant place is devoted to the problem of measuring creativity. In detail the model of emotional resonance, extended by T. Poort, to explain the mechanisms of influence of positive and negative emotions on creative thinking. The book will be useful to students-psychologists when studying the topic "thinking" at the rate of "General Psychology", as well as as a reference manual for all who are interested in the problems of creativity