Creativity consists of at least four components:(1) the creative process,(2) the creative
product,(3) the creative person, and (4) the creative situation (MacKinnon, 1970; Mooney …

Studies of creative ability across ages and grade levels show inconsistent results. Further,
past studies have rarely used tasks from multiple creativity domains. The current study …

How people perceive their creativity is a growing area of research, but less is known about
how people perceive the distinction between inborn (fixed) versus learnable (growth) …

Theoretical perspectives on creativity have suggested that intelligence is necessary but not
sufficient for creative behavior. Known as the threshold hypothesis, this idea has generated …

The articles in this issue of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development nicely
summarize recent findings about creativity and development. This commentary underscores …

Few issues polarize the scientific community within the field of creativity as the purported
association between creativity and psychopathology. The idea that the two are intimately …

This article reviews developmental studies of creativity in children and adolescents with a
focus on “peaks” and “slumps” that have often been described in the literature. The …

If IQs continue to rise over generation, why has the world been unable to solve basic
recurrent problems? This paper argues that creativity, which is overlooked in IQ tests and …

The threshold hypothesis is a classical and notable explanation for the relationship between
creativity and intelligence. However, few empirical examinations of this theory exist, and the …

In this chapter, we examine how creativity develops across the life span in four discrete
domains: the arts, the sciences, political leadership, and moral leadership. We address four …