Criticism as a Creative Act

The Effects of Criticism on Creative Ideation

In a typical brainstorming method, criticism must be withheld for creative ideation. We envisage a web-based system that is designed to avoid possible negative influences of, and make good use of, critical thinking to generate creative ideas. To investigate its plausibility, we developed a system in which people participate collectively in a sequence of processes including generating, criticizi...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Improvisation as a Creative Dialogue

Creative Flow as a Unique Cognitive Process

Creative cognition as a window on creativity.

The creative cognition approach views creativity as the generation of novel and appropriate products through the application of basic cognitive processes to existing knowledge structures. It relies on converging evidence from anecdotal accounts of creativity and tightly controlled laboratory studies designed to examine the processes that are assumed to operate in those anecdotes. Specific examp...