PEP | Article - Contemporary Approaches to Creative Thinking. Edited by Howard E. Gruber, Glenn Terrell, Michael Wertheimer. New York: Atherton Press, 1963, XIV + 223 pages.

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Abstract

This symposium, held at the University of Colorado, is composed of eight contributions, having an empirical and experimental orientation. Jerome Bruner and Mary Henle stress detachment and commitment as conditions for creativity; David McClelland examines the work process of the empirical scientist, Allen Newell, J. Shaw and Herbert H. Simon present processes of creative thinking on the model of “the thinking machine,”—a high speed computer; Richard S. Crutchfield writes on the relation between conformity and creative thinking, and Robert B. MacLeod summarizes the main points made by the others. The psychoanalytic approach is barely touched in these essays.