Can We Be Intelligent and Creative Simultaneously?

Ambrose, Don
Cohen, LeoNora M.
Tannenbaum, Abraham J. Eds.
Feldhusen, John F.

DON AMBROSE, School of Education, Rider University.
LeoNORA M. COHEN, School of Education, Oregon State University.
ABRAHAM J. TANNENBAUM, Department of Social-Organizational Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University.
JOHN F. FELDHUSEN, School of Education, Purdue University. Correspondence concerning this review should be addressed to John F. Feldhusen, 1301 Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236. E-mail: [email protected]

PsycCRITIQUES 49(5):p 616-617, October 2004. | DOI: 10.1037/004820

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 2004, Vol 49(5), 616–617. Creative intelligence: Toward theoretic integration (see record 2003-02670-000) attempts to synthesize and integrate our current theoretical knowledge of creativity and intelligence. Creativity is fluent ability to produce original ideas and solutions to problems. Intelligence is the ability to think and remember information or declarative knowledge. Thus, it seems that these authors have taken on a monumental task. Overall, this book offers a very good and comprehensive review and integration of theory and research on creativity and intelligence. The leading theorists of our time from Amabile, Csikszentmihalyi, and Feldman to Gardner, Gruber, and Torrance are well represented in the chapter reviews. The introduction of so much attention to gifted individuals and gifted education is a bit puzzling but perhaps is relevant to the general topics of creativity and intelligence. This is good reading for all scholars and developers who strive to understand the composite phenomenon, creative intelligence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)