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Why the Standard Definition of Creativity Fails to Capture the Creative Act

2023-12-04

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The standard definition of creativity holds that a creative idea is one that is novel and useful. Studies that follow from the standard definition and its derivatives tend to adopt an external frame of reference when estimating the level of creativity of an idea. It is not the person who has in fact generated the idea (the creator) who reports on whether they have come up with an idea that they themselves deem to...

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Literature Corpus work: 6574387f-9401-5c77-91a4-e079badfc81f
DOI: 10.32388/ls88g9

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