Previous lessons have referred to theoretical approaches to and empirical research on creativity.\u00a0 It is clearly an interesting area, which often has practical applications in the form of heuristics and methods to enhance creativity.\u00a0 However, it is also a difficult area to study in a rigorous manner with as many myths as facts and very hard to distinguish between the two.<\/p>\n
This lesson offers a few pointers into the academic and practical literature on creativity and also discusses some of the more well established results in the area including the heuristics of de Bono and Polya, aspects of personality and the importance of a good night’s sleep!<\/p>\n
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There is large literature on creativity both practical how-to-do-it guides, especially for artistic creativity, and also more theoretical work form psychology, management science and social science.\u00a0 This section gives a few pointers into the literature including some authors that have been mentioned in previous lessons.\u00a0 We also look at some of the methods that are used to study creativity.<\/p>\n