Download or read book Explaining Creativity written by R. Keith Sawyer and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining Creativity is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of scientific studies on creativity and innovation. Sawyer discusses not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, business innovation, and creativity in everyday life. Sawyer's approach is interdisciplinary. In addition to examining psychological studies on creativity, he draws on anthropologists' research on creativity in non-Western cultures, sociologists' research on the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity, and cognitive neuroscientists' studies of the brain.