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Creativity.4in1: Four-Criterion Construct of Creativity
- Source :
- Creativity Research Journal. 26:338-352
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2014.
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Abstract
- The purpose of this theoretical article is to provide an extended definition of creativity that embraces potential cross-cultural variations in this construct. Creativity is defined as a 4-criterion construct, which includes attributes of novelty, utility, aesthetics, and authenticity. Novelty attribute stipulates that a creative work brings something new into being, which presents a new conceptual framework and/or modifies or violates an existing one. Utility attribute stipulates that a creative work is what a producer or a recipient considers creative, what represents an important landmark in spiritual, cultural, social, and/or political environment, and what addresses moral issues. The aesthetics attribute stipulates that a creative work presents the fundamental truth of nature, which is reflected in a perfect order, efficiently presents the essence of the phenomenal reality, and is satisfactorily complex, expressing both tension and intrinsic contradiction. Authenticity attribute stipulates that a cre...
- Subjects :
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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Novelty
Creativity
Epistemology
Politics
Creative work
Conceptual framework
Order (exchange)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Contradiction
Psychology (miscellaneous)
Sociology
Construct (philosophy)
Social psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15326934 and 10400419
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Creativity Research Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........4757c3d4537436ce7be1052fb1404d0d