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Intelligence and creativity: a complex but important relationship

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The relationship between intelligence and creativity is often discussed and debated, and it has significant implications for education, student development, and the workplace. We use Sternberg’s framework for understanding intelligence–creativity work to examine research on this important topic, with an emphasis on several recent studies that exemplify the diversity of approaches to the topic. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research in this area. Throughout the paper, we emphasize the importance of carefully defining constructs in social science research.

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  1. Planning, attention, simultaneous processing, successive processing (PASS) is a theory that conceptualizes intelligence based on modularization of neurological functioning.

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Plucker, J.A., Esping, A. Intelligence and creativity: a complex but important relationship. Asia Pacific Educ. Rev. 16, 153–159 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-015-9374-9

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