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About Me

Professor at Cal State San Bernardino. Started all of this to try and link up students in my lab (or any students interested in creativity work)! If you are interested in doing research about creativity (or, to a lesser extent, personality, motivation, thinking styles, and stuff like that), drop me a line!

My Interests

Baseball, Theatre

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in creativity -- studying it, or being creative (esp. theater)

Movies:

House of Games, All That Jazz, Amadeus, Lone Star, Fearless, Frailty, Sixth Sense, Usual Suspects, L. A. Confidential, Stay, Devil's Advocate, Godfather...

Television:

Lost; CSI; Simpsons; Scrubs; Without a Trace

Books:

The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien; Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard; Wicked, by Gregory Maguire; Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life; most books by Harlan Coben.

My Blog

posting for a writer seeking to interview people

My cousin is a journalist/freelance writer and is working on a book and made the request below. If this relates to either you or someone you know, please e-mail me at [email protected] and I will for...
Posted by JCK, Creativity Researcher on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:04:00 PST

Discovering Magenta: A new musical

Hi all,Check out Discovering Magenta's MySpace page! It's one of my 'friends,' and it's www.myspace.com/discoveringmagentaThanks!J
Posted by JCK, Creativity Researcher on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:39:00 PST

Creativity Book: Definitions of Creativity

Again, comments/criticisms greatly appreciated. Defining creativity Guilford focused on creativity as a key part of human inte...
Posted by JCK, Creativity Researcher on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:18:00 PST

More creativity book -- comments and thoughts appreciated!

Creativity: A brief history The history of creativity research has two eras so far before 1950 and after 1950. Before 1950, th...
Posted by JCK, Creativity Researcher on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:23:00 PST

Creativity, Chapt 2

Chapter 2What is Creativity?The Modern American Language Dictionary defines creativity as Ã¢a large, two-tailed amphibian that subsists on artificial sweeteners, perhaps best known for its ability bot...
Posted by JCK, Creativity Researcher on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:47:00 PST

My Creativity Book -- posting in chunks

Hi whoever's reading this,I'm working on a solo creativity book. I'm going to post some chunks of it (in order) here. I'll probably continue if people read/comment/etc., and will probably stop if no...
Posted by JCK, Creativity Researcher on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:06:00 PST

some nice news

1. It's a boy (will be Jacob Levi Kaufman)2. Got tenure and promotion
Posted by JCK, Creativity Researcher on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:24:00 PST

testing this out

Simply testing out the idea of a blog. If I do blog a bit, it would be work-related. I doubt anyone gives a hoot about my thoughts about cheese.I am currently mostly working on finishing up old proj...
Posted by JCK, Creativity Researcher on Wed, 31 May 2006 02:25:00 PST