Analyzing Creativity in the Light of Social Practice Theory

In this work, starting from the social practice theory, we identified two kinds of creativity: a situational creativity that takes place when, starting from a defined situation, a social practice is played; and a creativity of habit that concerns the agents' capacity for generating new practice...

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Autores principales: Città, Giuseppe, Gentile, Manuel, Augello, Agnese, Ottaviano, Simona, Allegra, Mario, Dignum, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6340098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30692955
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02752
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author Città, Giuseppe
Gentile, Manuel
Augello, Agnese
Ottaviano, Simona
Allegra, Mario
Dignum, Frank
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description In this work, starting from the social practice theory, we identified two kinds of creativity: a situational creativity that takes place when, starting from a defined situation, a social practice is played; and a creativity of habit that concerns the agents' capacity for generating new practices from habit when the situation is not defined or is unexpected. To test this hypothesis, the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (Verbal Form A) was analyzed in the light of praxeology, and the results are analyzed in a computational creativity perspective.
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spelling pubmed-63400982019-01-28 Analyzing Creativity in the Light of Social Practice Theory Città, Giuseppe Gentile, Manuel Augello, Agnese Ottaviano, Simona Allegra, Mario Dignum, Frank Front Psychol Psychology In this work, starting from the social practice theory, we identified two kinds of creativity: a situational creativity that takes place when, starting from a defined situation, a social practice is played; and a creativity of habit that concerns the agents' capacity for generating new practices from habit when the situation is not defined or is unexpected. To test this hypothesis, the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (Verbal Form A) was analyzed in the light of praxeology, and the results are analyzed in a computational creativity perspective. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6340098/ /pubmed/30692955 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02752 Text en Copyright © 2019 Città, Gentile, Augello, Ottaviano, Allegra and Dignum. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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