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Creativity and the Wandering Mind: Spontaneous and Controlled Cognition summarizes research on the impact of mind wandering and cognitive control on creativity, including imagination, fantasy and play. Most coverage in this area has either focused on the negative consequences of mind wandering on focused problem solving or the positive effect of mindfulness, but not on the positive consequences of mind wandering. This volume bridges that gap. Research indicates that most people experience mind wandering during a large percentage of their waking time, and that it is a baseline default mode of brain function during the awake but resting state. This volume explores the different kinds of mind wandering and its positive impact on imagination, play, problem-solving, and creative production.

The Creative Self is a collection of essays that synthesize, analyze, and discuss key theories, studies, and new ideas about the creative self-beliefs. It untangles the interrelated constructs of creative self-efficacy, creative metacognition, creative identity, and creative self-concept. It explores how and when creative self-beliefs are formed as well as how creative self-beliefs can be strengthened. The volume is separated into five sections. Part One, Broad Considerations, explores some of the overarching issues in the field. Part Two, Living a Creative Life, discusses the creativity present in day-to-day life across the lifespan. Part Three, Integrating Multiple Constructs, highlights the intersection of the creative self with such other variables as mindset, domains, the brain, and other individual differences. Part Four, Specific Considerations, discusses several nuanced topics that play a part in the creative self, from culture to methodology. Part Five, New Models and Perspectives, offers suggestions for additional constructs or theories that may offer promise for future work.Explores how beliefs about one''s creativity are part of one''s identityInvestigates the development of self-beliefs about creativityReviews personality factors that influence self-beliefs about creativityIdentifies external factors that influence self-beliefs about creativityIncludes research from an international and cross-disciplinary lineup of top scholars

Today''s workers spend upwards of 80% of their time collaborating and teams have become the fundamental unit within organizations.  Creative Success in Teams summarizes for practitioners and researchers what drives team creativity.  Utilizing research from psychology, organizational behavior/management, business, and education, the book discusses how best to start, manage, and foster creativity in team environments, how to encourage participation and collaboration, what makes for the most creative team, and how best to lead and evaluate creative teams. Summarizes creativity research from psychology, education, and businessIdentifies how best to form a team for creative outputDiscusses how to foster team participation and collaborationIncludes multicultural, interdisciplinary, and diverse teams

Creativity and Morality summarizes and integrates research on creativity used to achieve bad or immoral ends. The book includes the use of deception, novel ideas to commit wrongdoings across contexts, including in organizations, the classroom and terrorism. Morality is discussed from an individual perspective and relative to broader sociocultural norms that allow people to believe actions are justified. Chapters explore this research from an interdisciplinary perspective, including from psychology, philosophy, media studies, aesthetics and ethics.