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The Garbage Can Model There are several of these in the research literature on creativity (Amabile, 1996; Ford and Gioia, 1995; Woodman et al, 1993). Amabile has one with domain skills, creation skills, and task motivation skills applied to four … Continue reading →

The Combined Thought Types Model There are a number of people and studies that have suggested that creativity is either certain particular types of thinking done unusually intensively or unusual combinations of ordinary types of thinking (see Sinnott in Adams-Price, … Continue reading →

The Darwinian System Model This model is the result of combining two simpler models–Csikszentmihalyi’s systems model (Feldman, 1994) with Simonton’s darwinian model (Simonton, 1999; Bentley, 1999; Greene, Journal, Sept. 1999). It is a matrix having four darwinian operators as column … Continue reading →

The Question Finding Model This model comes from a number of books and articles that have investigated how creative people select what to solve, what to invent, what to paint, what to work on (Runco, 1994; Root-Bernstein, 1989; Petroski, 1998; … Continue reading →

The Traits Model    This model was built by taking all statements of traits of creative works, people, societies from recent creativity research publishings, and grouping them, grouping those groups, ordering super-groups, copying that ordering with groups, and with items within … Continue reading →

The Recommendations Model. This model was produced by taking the specific recommendations made by twenty one famous creativity researchers (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996; Gardner, 1993; Amabile, 1996; Runco, 1997 plus others), on how to make oneself more creative, grouping them by similarity, … Continue reading →