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  • Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will

    Edited by John Baer, James C. Kaufman, Roy F. Baumeister ...
    Do people have free will, or this universal belief an illusion? If free will is more than an illusion, what kind of free will do people have? How can free will influence behavior? Can free will be studied, verified, and understood scientifically? How and why might a sense of free will have evolved? These are a few of the questions this book attempts to answer. People generally act as though they ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • There's No Such Thing as Creativity

    How Plato and 20th Century Psychology Have Misled Us

    by John Baer ...
    Series series Elements in Creativity and Imagination
    Most people (including creativity researchers) act as if they believe that creativity is not simply a useful category or label but a real thing with its own essence (just as Plato would argue that an ideal triangle has an essence that is shared with all actual triangles). Most people (including creativity researchers) also believe that there is a set of general creativity-relevant skills that can ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development

    Edited by James C. Kaufman, John Baer ...
    Series series Current Perspectives in Social and Behavioral Sciences
    This book explores the development of cognitive skills related to reasoning and creativity, two strands that can intertwine to work together at times but may also be at odds. Spontaneity and freedom from constraint, characteristic of the thinking of young children, may be essential to creativity, which has prompted many to question how much we lose as we progress through childhood. Research and ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity across Domains

    Edited by James C. Kaufman, Vlad P. Glăveanu, John Baer ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    Creativity is of rising interest to scholars and laypeople alike. Creativity in the arts, however, is very different from creativity in science, business, sports, cooking, or teaching. This book brings together top experts in the field from around the world to discuss creativity across many different domains. Each chapter includes clear definitions, intriguing research, potential measures, and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom

    by Ronald A. Beghetto, James C. Kaufman, John Baer ...
    Creativity and the Common Core State Standards are both important to today’s teachers. Yet, for many educators, nurturing students’ creativity seems to conflict with ensuring that they learn specific skills and content. In this book, the authors outline ways to adapt existing lessons and mandated curricula to encourage the development of student creativity alongside more traditional academic ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Creativity and Divergent Thinking

    A Task-Specific Approach

    by John Baer ...
    Do general-purpose creative-thinking skills -- skills like divergent thinking, which is touted as an important component of creative thinking no matter what the task domain -- actually make much of a contribution to creative performance? Although much recent research argues against such domain-transcending skills -- including several new studies reported in this book -- the appeal of such general ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Domain Specificity of Creativity

    by John Baer ...
    Series series Explorations in Creativity Research
    Recent research findings have challenged the idea that creativity is domain-general. Domain Specificity of Creativity brings together the research information on domain specificity in creativity -- both the research that supports it and answers to research arguments that might seem to challenge it. The implications for domain specificity affect how we move forward with theories of creativity, ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Creativity and Humor

    by Sarah R. Luria, John Baer, James C. Kaufman ...
    Series series Explorations in Creativity Research
    Creativity and Humor provides an overview of the intersection of how humor influences creativity and how creativity can affect humor. The book's chapters speak to the wide reach of creativity and humor with different topics, such as play, culture, work, education, therapy, and social justice covered. As creativity and humor are individual traits and abilities that have each been studied in ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Creativity Across Domains

    Faces of the Muse

    Edited by James C. Kaufman, John Baer ...
    Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied creative thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts, sciences, and communication/leadership. Each contributor explains what is known about the cognitive processes, ways of conceptualizing and ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

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  • Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies

    Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis

    by R. Coleman Curtis ...
    Series series New Imago
    Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "new experiences" model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts. Such ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • How the Brain Learns to Read

    by David A. Sousa ...
    A modern classic, updated for today’s classroom needsNo skill is more fundamental to our students’ education than reading. And no recent book has done more to advance our understanding of the neuroscience behind this so-critical skill than David Sousa’s How the Brain Learns to Read. To tens of thousands of educators, Sousa revealed at last how exactly young brains learn to make sense of printed ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity

    Edited by James C. Kaufman, Robert J. Sternberg, PhD ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education, business, and world cultures. The ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD