Keyword

creative problem solving

Description: A cognitive process for identifying problems and developing original, useful solutions, studied in education and psychology.

Primary topic: Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (23%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q853133

OpenAlex ID: keywords/creative-problem-solving

Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving.

1987 · Alice M. Isen, Kimberly A. Daubman, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2,985

Blind variation and selective retentions in creative thought as in other knowledge processes.

1960 · Donald T. Campbell · Psychological Review · 2,325

A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition.

1999 · F. Gregory Ashby, Alice M. Isen, et al. · Psychological Review · 2,266

Applied imagination : principles and procedures of creative problem-solving /

1963 · Alexander Faickney Osborn · 1,453

Creative Cognition

1992 · Ronald A. Finke, Thomas B. Ward, et al. · The MIT Press eBooks · 1,433

When Collections of Creatives Become Creative Collectives: A Field Study of Problem Solving at Work

2006 · Andrew B. Hargadon, Beth A. Bechky · Organization Science · 1,289

The effects of promotion and prevention cues on creativity.

2001 · Ronald S. Friedman, Jens Förster · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1,092

Creative Problem Solving: Total Systems Intervention.

1992 · Ann Taket, Robert L. Flood, et al. · Journal of the Operational Research Society · 1,051

When is an illustration worth ten thousand words?

1990 · Richard E. Mayer, Joan K. Gallini · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1,050

Brainstorming Groups in Context: Effectiveness in a Product Design Firm

1996 · Robert I. Sutton, Andrew Hargadon · Administrative Science Quarterly · 1,013

Thinking, Problem Solving, Cognition

1984 · C. P. D., Richard E. Mayer · The American Journal of Psychology · 992

Inspired by Distraction

2012 · Benjamin Baird, Jonathan Smallwood, et al. · Psychological Science · 972

Animations need narrations: An experimental test of a dual-coding hypothesis.

1991 · Richard E. Mayer, Richard B. Anderson · Journal of Educational Psychology · 882

Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Thinking

1953 · Alexander Faickney Osborn · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 867

Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius

1993 · Robert W. Weisberg · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 859

The influence of positive affect on the unusualness of word associations.

1985 · Alice M. Isen, Mitzi M. Johnson, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 808

Process analytic models of creative capacities

1991 · Michael D. Mumford, Michele I. Mobley, et al. · Creativity Research Journal · 713

Relationship between quality management practices and innovation

2012 · Dong‐Young Kim, Vinod Kumar, et al. · Journal of Operations Management · 703

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Lateral thinking: Creativity Step by Step

1970 · Edward De Bono · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 691

Models for Understanding

1989 · Richard E. Mayer · Review of Educational Research · 690

Leadership and creativity: Understanding leadership from a creative problem-solving perspective

2004 · Roni Reiter-Palmon, Jody J. Illies · The Leadership Quarterly · 678

The costs and benefits of mind-wandering: A review.

2013 · Benjamin W. Mooneyham, Jonathan W. Schooler · Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale · 666

Problem Finding, Problem Solving, and Creativity

1994 · Mark A. Runco · 664

Origins of Genius

1999 · Dean Keith Simonton · 650

Normative data for 144 compound remote associate problems

2003 · Edward M. Bowden, Mark Jung-Beeman · Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers · 649

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Citation count: 110,200