Group Creative Problem Solving: The Role of Creative Personality, Process and Creative Ability

Creative Ability, Creative Ideation and Latent Classes of Creative Achievement: What Is the Role of Personality?

Silvia and colleagues (Silvia, Kaufman, & Pretz, 2009) highlighted the advantages of latent class analysis when studying creative achievement. The current study replicates and expands Silvia and colleagues’ (2009) findings on creative achievement in a sample of 656 students, of which 223 were also assessed on creative ability and ideation, as well as a broad range of personality traits. A laten...

Clarifying the role of the creative problem solving process on improving the competitiveness of architectural design

Introduction: As a cognitive activity, the process of creative problem solving plays a crucial role in architectural design. The design method includes the emergence, evolution, and transformation of ideas and the formation of concepts. Explaining the most important influential components of creativity and contestability of design raises these concepts in achieving each one of the approaches. T...

Marketing and the Creative Problem-Solving Process

Creative strategies in problem solving

Three experiments investigated how individuals solve “shape” problems. These problems are not susceptible to a meansends strategy. They consist of a configuration of squares, whose sides consist of separate pieces; and the task is to remove a given number of pieces to leave behind a given number of squares. The paper presents a theory of how individuals develop strategies for these problems. Ex...

Creative Problem Solving Using GroupSystems

Creativity is an important issue in the world of collaboration and it is widely accepted that techniques of creativity can energize participants and improve effectiveness of meetings. Specifically these techniques have been applied to ‘creative problem solving’. This paper analyses why it can be difficult to be creative in conventional meetings and. describes some current techniques for encoura...