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Creativity and Temporality

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Distributed Creativity

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This chapter focuses on the temporal distribution of creativity and its unfolding in irreversible time. Against models of this phenomenon that reduce it to single moments, like idea generation, or consider it non-developmentally, this chapter takes into account three distinct levels of temporality. The societal or historical level reveals the fact that individual creators and creations belong to larger and continuous processes distributed across generations. Considered from an individual perspective, creativity develops throughout the lifespan and its ontogenetic movement reflects ‘peaks’ and ‘slumps’ that need to be understood in socio-cultural terms. Finally, the temporal distribution of creativity is essentially captured by moment-to-moment changes taking place within (inter)action and communication and defining its microgenetic expression.

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Glăveanu, V.P. (2014). Creativity and Temporality. In: Distributed Creativity. SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05434-6_5

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