Exile and the Creative Imagination

Origin Myths: Susano-o, Orikuchi Shinobu, And The Imagination Of Exile In Early Japan

Creative Imagination, Absorption, and Dissociation with African American College Students

Dissociation theories of hypnosis suggest that absorption and dissociation are correlated with hypnotizability (1). Absorption can be described as a trait that involves openness to cognitive and affective alterations across several situations. Moreover, absorption is a participant's readiness for deep mental and emotional involvement, and the participant appears to be impervious to naturally di...

The Shared Imagination: Creative Collaboration in Augmented Virtuality

In creative collaboration, the primary focus of participants is creating “what if” scenarios that must be jointly imagined. Collaboration in strictly Physical Reality (PR) is constrained because of the limitations the real world places on shared imagination. As dynamic as Virtual Reality (VR) environments can be, subtle human-to-human interaction is severely limited in these totally synthetic e...

From Imagination to Innovation: A Creative Development Process

This paper is concerned with models of the innovation process. It takes the perspective that innovation is a non-linear process where development paths emerge from the process of ‘imagining’ and ‘doing’, iterating around in evolutionary cycles until a satisfactory innovation emerges. To support this we have developed a model of the innovation process called Creative Innovation Development (CID)...

Validating the imagination questionnaire

The purpose of the present study was to validate the Liang, Su, Chang and Lin imagination questionnaire. The research method, correlation and statistical population of this study were all secondary school students in Ahvaz. 300 students (150 boys and 150 girls) were selected by multistage random sampling method. The Liang, Su, Chang and Lin imagination questionnaire were used to measure imagina...