The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity

This second edition of the renowned Cambridge Handbook of Creativity expands on the first edition with over two thirds new material reaching across psychology business entrepreneurship education and neuroscience. It introduces creativity scholarship by summarising its history major theories and assessments how creativity develops across the lifespan and suggestions for improving creativity. It also illustrates cutting-edge work on genetics and the neuroscience of creativity alongside creativity''s potential for both benevolence and malevolence. The chapters cover the related areas of imagination genius play and aesthetics and tackle questions about how cultural differences one''s physical environment mood and self-belief can impact creativity. The book then examines the impacts on creativity of behaviour by teachers managers and leaders in particular.