Contribution to a Book
Encyclopedia of Creativity (Third Edition)
Steven Pritzker, Mark Runco
Science would not exist if it were not for creative ideas. The psychology of science empirically addressed and answered the questions of not only who becomes a scientist and why, but also who becomes a creative scientist. The answers provide particular profiles of neural complexity, development, personality, and cognition. This entry summarizes these literatures and provides an integrated profile of the creative scientist. For example, the creative scientist is called to the life of science at a younger age, remains highly productive, is more confident, flexible, and hostile, and solves problems more often using analogy, metaphor, and visual imagery.
Scientific creativity, Psychology of science, Neural complexity, Development, Personality, Analogy, Metaphor, Visual imagery, Motivation, Visualization, Fluency
Gregory J. Feist. "Science" Encyclopedia of Creativity (Third Edition) (2020): 460-466. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.06156-3