The nature of insight /
The Nature of Insight brings together diverse perspectives, including recent theories and discoveries, to examine the nature and origins of insightful thinking, as well as the history of theory and research on the topic and the methods used to study it. There are chapters by the leading experts in t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©1995.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The Nature of Insight brings together diverse perspectives, including recent theories and discoveries, to examine the nature and origins of insightful thinking, as well as the history of theory and research on the topic and the methods used to study it. There are chapters by the leading experts in this field, including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald A. Finke, Howard E. Gruber, Marcel Adam Just, David E. Meyer, David N. Perkins, Dean Keith Simonton, and Robert W. Weisberg, among others. The Nature of Insight is divided into five main parts. Following an introduction that reviews the history and methods of the field, part II looks at how people solve challenging puzzles whose answers cannot be obtained through ordinary means. Part III focuses on how people come up with ideas for new inventions, while part IV explores the thinking of some of the most insightful people in the history of civilization. Part V considers metaphors such as evolution and investment as bases for understanding insight. An epilogue integrates all these approaches. |
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| Item Description: | "A Bradford book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 618 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780262284370 0262284375 0585246610 9780585246611 9780262691871 0262691876 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/4879.001.0001 |