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When J. P. Guilford proposed that American psychology take up the study of creativity in 1950, he defined creativity as behaviors that came from creative personalities. As discussed in Chapters 2 and 3, Guilford’s focus was on cognitive traits contributing to ideation, but the larger challenge was to understand the overall creative personality. Other theorists have looked at creativity as essential to personality development. The humanistic psychologists who defined and promoted the concept of self-actualization have been particularly influential in this category, going beyond how creativity produces ideas and considering how it could be part of personal fulfillment.
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Hanson, M.H. (2015). Self-Actualization: The Pursuit of Potential. In: Worldmaking: Psychology and the Ideology of Creativity. Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137408051_5
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