The Sociocultural Context of Exceptional Creativity: Historiometric Studies

Simonton, Dean Keith

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95498-1_12

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“…Unfortunately, most of the methods and methodologies used today to study creativity are not up to the task of investigating it as a psychological, social, and material phenomenon (but some do successfully articulate two of these, for example, the individual and the social-historical in studies using cultural-historiometric analyses; Simonton, 2019). Most tests to date focus on creative potential as a reified, relatively stable and intra-psychological property of the person.…”

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A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological

Glăveanu

2020

Review of General Psychology

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The present article gives an overview of sociocultural approaches to creativity and advances a particular theory of the creative process grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, and affordance. If sociocultural psychology challenges old dichotomies between mind and body, individual and society, then creativity is ideally placed to demonstrate their interdependence. While sociocultural thinking in creativity research has traditionally emphasized the social or collaborative nature of creative processes, recovering old scholarship and reviewing it in light of current empirical developments shows how socio-materiality can properly inform psychological theory in this area. The article starts with an outline of sociocultural principles before considering their application to creativity. It then formulates four propositions regarding the creative process: (a) differences of perspective increase creative potential; (b) exchanging positions and perspectives, within and between individuals, fosters creative processes; (c) these exchanges result in perspectives that reveal previously unperceived affordances; and (d) oftentimes, it is the affordances of material objects or of unique idea combinations that guide the development of novel perspectives in creative work. Evidence supporting these key hypotheses of the perspective-affordance theory of creativity (PAT) comes from research conducted in a variety of areas within psychology and in related fields. In the end, the methodological and practical implications of considering creativity as a process of recognizing differences, exchanging positions, developing perspectives and discovering affordances will be discussed, as well as the broader implications of building theories that bring together, rather than keep separate, the social, the material, and the psychological.

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A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological

Glăveanu

2020

Review of General Psychology

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“…It might therefore be argued that, in a sense, individual musical choices are never fully independent from broader social dynamics. It is well known that creativity involves interacting with those around us (see e.g., Sawyer, 2003;Simonton, 2019), suggesting that seemingly isolated musical practices are complexly intertwined with social factors that permeate creative and expressive musical outcomes of individuals and groups.…”

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The Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale

Schiavio,

Biasutti,

Kempf

et al. 2024

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal

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We introduce a new inventory labeled the Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale (PRCS). This is a novel inventory developed to self-assess creative and social factors inherent in music composition. The PRCS consists of two separate scales of 12 items each, namely the Composing Processes Scale (CPS) and the Social Relationship Scale (SRS). An exploratory factor analysis revealed that the CPS scale has a single factor structure, while the SRS scale relies on three main factors: loneliness, support, and friendship. The total score of the CPS was found to be highly reliable, whereas the SRS obtained a lower score. The PRCS can contribute new insights into how creative and social processes can be self-assessed by music composers with different backgrounds and levels of musical expertise. Our work aims to deepen understanding of the relationship between musical creativity and social life, contributing to existing scholarship that has explored this connection in musical activities specifically.

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The Two Social Psychologies of Creativity: From Historiometric to Experimental (and the Latter to Stay)

Simonton

2020

Creativity at Work

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The Sociocultural Context of Exceptional Creativity: Historiometric Studies

Cited by 5 publications

References 59 publications

A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological

A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological

The Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale

The Two Social Psychologies of Creativity: From Historiometric to Experimental (and the Latter to Stay)

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