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16 - The Relation of Creativity to Intelligence and Wisdom

from Individual Differences in Creativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2019

By
Robert J. Sternberg ,
James C. Kaufman  and
Anne M. Roberts
Edited by
James C. Kaufman  and
Robert J. Sternberg
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

In this chapter, we discuss the relations between creativity, on the one hand, and intelligence and wisdom, on the other. First, we discuss what is to be learned from studies of implicit (folk) theories of these constructs. Then, we review five explicit theories: Structure of Intellect (SOI) Theory, Cattell–Horn–Carroll (CHC) Theory, Planning Attention Simultaneous Sequential (PASS) Model, Multiple Intelligences, and Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized (WICS).
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The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity , pp. 337 - 352
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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