Abstract
An integrative life history model of creativity is presented based on the idea that a combination of heritable and developmental factors regulate individual differences in life history strategy, which is in turn reflected in individual differences in the structure of cognitive abilities and creative styles. This will be discussed in the context of two theories on the nature of human intelligence, the cognitive differentiation–integration effort (CD–IE) theory and the dual process theory. Finally, a novel approach to counteracting the so-called creativity crisis, or apparent secular decline in creativity in modernised populations, will be presented, based on the idea that creativity might be enhanced greatly via the process of social emergenesis. This involves capitalising on social epistatic interactions among dyads of creative individuals working together to solve mutually interesting problems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The practice of thinking |
| Subtitle of host publication | Cultivating the extraordinary |
| Editors | Marta Lenartowicz, Weaver Weinbaum |
| Place of Publication | Ghent |
| Publisher | Academia Press |
| Pages | 405-429 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9401469814 |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |