The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity across Domains

This volume explores and integrates research on creativity across domains to address whether creativity is a general or domain-specific ability.

This volume addresses the question of whether creativity is a general ability or whether it is domain-specific, bringing together researchers across academia to explain the cognitive processes, ways of solving problems, personality and motivational attributes, guiding metaphors, and work habits that best characterize creative people.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 suggestions for development or future directions. After a broad discussion of creativity across different domains, subsequent chapters look deeper into those individual domains (traditional arts, sciences, business, newer domains, and everyday life) to explore how creativity varies when expressed in different ways. Ultimately, the book offers a future-looking perspective integrating the different variations of creativity across domains.