ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that "a complete understanding of [social] factors and their effects on creativity can only be achieved by integrating the social psychology of creativity with the insights and methods of personality and cognitive psychology." The social psychology of creativity is no longer a neonate. It has a twenty-year history, and significant progress has been made in basic knowledge about social influences on creativity and in the integration of social psychological with personality and cognitive variables. Throughout the history of psychological research on creativity, ideologically divergent lines of work have remained almost completely separate. The componential model of creativity proposed in the 1983 edition highlighted a creativity component—intrinsic task motivation—and a class of creativity influences—social-environmental factors—that had been largely neglected in the prior literature. Finally, experimental research in the social psychology of creativity must continue to move beyond investigations of extrinsic constraints.
