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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88164-7 - The Psychology of Creative Writing Edited by Scott Barry Kaufman and James C. Kaufman Index More information index abstract concepts, 28 Barrie, J. M., 257 aesthetics, 10 Barron, F., 6, 7, 10, 12 Affect in Play Scale, 249, 255, 256, 260 Baudelaire, C., 123 description of, 255 Beckett, S., 14 stability over time, 255 Bellow, S., 6 affective disorders, 24, 26, 31 Bergman, I., 257 Allen, W., 18 and pretend play, 249 alternative assessment techniques on childhood memories and creativity, 257 creative writing, 335 Berrigan, T., 11 Alther, L., 183 Berryman, J. Amabile, T. M., 277 His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, 29 Americans in the arts, 28 Big Five, 5, 96 Amherst Writers & Artists, 316–320, 322–324, biographical research, 180 328, 329 versus experimental, 180 evaluation, 329, 330 biographies, 25, 27, 29 self-esteem and self-efficacy, 326 bipolar disorder, 13–15, 24–26, 31, 41–43, 47, Andreason, N., 13 52, 54–56, 353. See also mood disorder anger, 25, 26, 31 bipolar I, 42 anguish, 26 bipolar II, 42 anti-social behavior, 24, 25 cyclothymia, 42 APS. See Affect in Play Scale spectrum of, 42 Arbus, D., 15 temperamental instability, 42 architects, 28 Bird by Bird, 299 Ariel, 29 Blake, W., 15, 124 art, 25, 31 blocked writers artistic world, 34 absorption, 238 artist’s mood, 24 Positive-Constructive Daydreaming, 240 artists, 23–25, 28, 29, 31, 35 public or private self-consciousness styles, Asimov, I., 17 238 Association of Writers and Writing Programs, social anxiety, 238 125 stimulus-independent thought, 237 Auden, W. H., 6 successful intelligence, 244 Austen, J., 123, 312 task-unrelated intrusive thought, 237 Auteurism, 74 waking imagery, 239 AWA. See Amherst Writers & Artists Writing Difficulty questionnaire, 242 Bly, R., 11 Balzac, H., 14, 123 Borges, J. L., 14, 251 Banks, R., 12 on creative process, 251 371 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88164-7 - The Psychology of Creative Writing Edited by Scott Barry Kaufman and James C. Kaufman Index More information 372 Index Boyle, T. C., 8, 213 creative performance, 32, 33 BreadLoafWriters’Conference,8 creative processes, 28, 33, 248 British artists, 24 affective processes, 248 writers, 24 as everyday thought processes, 176 broad motivational systems, 250 cognitive bases, 188 Brodsky, J., 11 developed from pretend play, 254 Bronte, A., 180 distributed cognition, 169 Bronte, C., 180 divergent thinking, 248, 254 Bronte, E., 180, 257 embedding emotions, 257 physiognomy of, 122 idea exploration, 332 Buchwald, A., 15 idea generation, 332 Burroway, J., 217 idea generation and selection, 176 Butler, O., 213 immersion in a domain, 176 Butler, R. O., 213 insight, 47, 51, 95, 109, 167, 174–176, 248, 269, 277, 306, 307, 310, 356, 359, 365 California Psychological Inventory, 5 insight and pretend play, 254 Camus, A., 15 insight myth, 174 Canin, E., 221 myths. See creativity myths Capote, T., 6 persistent work, 175, 176 Carver, R., 173 practice, 295 catharsis, 191, 268 pretend play, 261. See pretend play cathartic originality, 191 pretend play and negative affect, 255 Cattell 16 Personality Factors, 5 pretend play mediates creativity, 257 Chabon, M., 304, 312 problem-finding style, 176 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 311 self-identity, 290 writing process of, 312 transformation abilities, 248 Cheever, J., 14, 16, 19, 180 creative processes related to affect Chehak,S.T.,216, 217 access to affect-laden thoughts and fantasy, Chinese language, 334 249 analogy and figurative language, affective pleasure in challenge, 249 334–335 affective pleasure in the creative act, 249 Anyu, 337, 338 broad motivational systems, 250 Biyu, 334, 336–342, 344–346, 348, 350, 368 cognitive integration and modulation of Jieyu, 338, 341 affective material, 249 Mingyu, 337, 338, 341 openness to affect states, 249 Yingyu, 337 creative writers, 23–25, 30, 31, 35 chronic strain, 32 and depression, 354 Chugunov, V., 11 and language, 356 Ciardi, J., 17 and mood disorders, 112, 353 cognitive capacities, 26 characteristics of, 112 cognitive distortion, 25 children, 356 cognitive processing, 33 common personality traits of, 352 Coleridge, S. T., 9, 14, 15, 19, 174–176, 179, development of, 351 359 identity formation of, 361 Kubla Khan, 150 psychology of, 351, 352 compartmentalized cognitions, 26 psychopathology, 353 composers, 28 creative writing, 24,26,35. See also creative Connelly, M., 213 writing processes, and writing Conrad, J., 123 analogy and figurative language, 334–335 consensual assessment technique, 332, 335, and mood, 360 368 and mood disorders, 41 constructivist cognitive theory, 184 and verbal intelligence, 352 Crane, H., 15, 30 and women, 355–356 suicide, 29 as a complex process, 351 The Bridge, 29 as a form of physiognomy, 357 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88164-7 - The Psychology of Creative Writing Edited by Scott Barry Kaufman and James C. Kaufman Index More information Index 373 as hard work, 360 as interaction of aptitude, process, and as oral creativity, 176–177 environment, 291 Chinese language, 334. See also Chinese flow. See flow language Geneplore model, 358 collaboration, 171 generating, 358 combining concepts, 204–205 idea formation based on knowledge, 359 consumption of nonveridical, 103 idea generation and selection, 175 development of, 351 illumination, 358 evaluations, 368–369 incubation, 358 facilitating, 367 person and process, 288 flow. See flow person process press, 117, 118 folk understandings of science, 200 planning, 358 Geneplore model, 156, 197, 206, practice, 292 306 preparation, 358 intentionality fallacy, 189 process, 292 interaction of reader and text, 125–126 process and practice, 292 internal critic in, 361, 362 reading and analyzing other creative interpretation of, 189–190 writing, 301 Matthew effect, 190 revision, 300–301, 303, 358. Seealso metaphor, 334 writing: revision mood variability, 43 self-identity, 293 myths. See creativity myths social context influences individual’s narratives, 357 creative process, 310 negative mood, 360 social environment effects on individual nonveridical, 102, 103, 105, 108 creator, 308 novel combinations, 206 subprocess, 359 overestimation, 189 use of emotion, 257 path-of-least-resistance, 198, 199, 201, 202, verification, 358 204, 207, 208 work habits, 358 physiognomy. See physiognomy creative writing therapy, 333 poetry. See poetry creativity. See also creative writing positive effects of, 365 adaptation, 184 positive mood, 360 affect play intervention increases creativity, prior knowledge of literature, importance 260 of, 175 and adaptation, 181–183 process, 26. See creative writing processes and popularity, 356 products of, 358 and risk, 352 psychology of, 351 and schizotypy, 354 revision, 299–300 as expression of pain, 252 role of feedback, 368 as genetically transmitted, 353 role of self-esteem, 296–297 beneficial aspects of psychopathology, 353 self-identity, 308 can be increased, 258 teaching of. See pedagogy of writing collaboration, importance of, 168–169 the cost of magic, 201 competition and. See evolutionary creative writing process psychology basic writing phases, 157 conceptual blending, 253 creative process, 154–155 cues, 359 criticism, 160 definition of, 189, 291 evaluation, 160 demystifying creativity, 295–298, generative and exploratory processes, 299–300. See also creativity myths 156 distribution of talents, 181 incubation, 155 domain specificity, 181, 183, 335–336 mental flow, 158 domains, 33 creative writing processes, 351 everyday creativity, 289–291 analysis, 301–302 flow. See flow © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88164-7 - The Psychology of Creative Writing Edited by Scott Barry Kaufman and James C. Kaufman Index More information 374 Index creativity (cont.) depression, 7, 12–14, 15–16, 23–27, 29–31, improvisational theater, 169 32, 33, 41, 48, 51, 53, 56, 271, 352, 353, mania, 44 354–356, 363, 365 mood effects, 43–44 cycle of depression, 32 music therapy, 192 depressive affect, 28 musical jazz ensembles, 169 depressive symptoms, 26, 31, 32 myths of. See creativity myths major depressive episode, 32 non-fiction, 181 positive influence on creativity, 355 of literature, writer, and reader, 118 despair, 26 personal creativity, 186 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental physiognomy. See physiognomy Disorders Fourth Revision, 42 reasons for, 102 Dickens, C., 14, 123, 124, 141, 215, 226 suicidal ideation and originality, 360 Dickey, J., 11 creativity myths Didion, J., 10, 226 creativity as solitary, 174 Dillard, A., 218 demystifying creativity, 296, 298 Dineson, I., 257 genius myth, 287–289 Directory of American Poets and Writers, 8 how they influence writers, 288, displaced aggression, 31 289 distress, 26, 30 individualism, 166–167 distributed cognition, 169, 361 outsiders, 167 divergent thinking, 189, 255–257, 261, 364, Romanticism, 168, 299–300 365 solitary writer, 177 andaffectinpretendplay,253 sudden insight, 167, 174–176, 287, and pretend play, 254 288–289, 290, 299–300, 303 as related to primary process thinking, 251 too much education, 167 intelligence quotient, 86. See also divergent Creativity Research Journal, 369 thinking creativity research methods. See also tests Donaldson, S., 364 mood induction paradigm, 253 Donne, J., 181, 182 person, 188, 189 DSM–IV. See Diagnostic and Statistical persuasion, 188 Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth place or press, 188 Revision potential, 188 Dubie, N., 12 process, 188, 248 Duncan, R., 6 process or press, 189 dysphoric rumination. See rumination product, 188, 189 creativity tests, 24 Eastern Europe, 25 creativity theories Einstein, A. Big C, 288 use of imagery, 225 collective and social paradigms, 290 Eliot, G., 123 Geneplore model, 306 Eliot, T. S., 166, 167, 173, 178 investment theory, 305 Eliot, V., 166 little c, 289 Emily Dickinson Runco’s model of personal creativity. See collaborative writing, 322 Runco’s model of personal creativity Silence is all we dread.˜ There’s Ransom in a theories of affect and creativity, 250–254. Voice, 322 See also theories of affect and creativity eminent people, 24, 25 Crutchfield, D., 6 eminent creative writers, 35 cummings, e.