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Donald Campbell's Model of the Creative Process: Creativity as Blind Variation and Selective Retention

✍ Scribed by DEAN KEITH SIMONTON

Publisher: Creative Education Foundation
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 315 KB
Volume: 32
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-0175
DOI: 10.1002/j.2162-6057.1998.tb00812.x

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✦ Synopsis

This special issue honors Donald Campbell, who died on May 6, 1996. Although Campbell became best known for his methodological contributions, he also published a classic 1960 paper in which he developed a blind-variation and selectiveretention model of the creative process. Not only does this Darwinian model accurately describe Campbell's own creative modus operandi, but in addition it may provide the basis for a comprehensive theory of creativity. The articles collected for this special issue are devoted to evaluating Campbell's theoretical proposal from the hindsight of nearly 40 years of research and thinking on the creative process.

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