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Fun, Foibles and Frustrations

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The current chapter reports on a longitudinal research project trying to understand what creativity means. While filled with plenty of frustrations and mistakes, it has opened up a different way of analyzing creativity – from an academic field, sociology, that has not paid much attention to the concept, and offered the kind of insights that are made possible only by combining different research methodologies.

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    Monika Reuter

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  1. Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

    Izabela Lebuda

  2. Department of Psychology, Webster University Geneva, Bellevue, Switzerland

    Vlad Petre Glăveanu

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Reuter, M. (2019). Fun, Foibles and Frustrations. In: Lebuda, I., Glăveanu, V.P. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Creativity Research. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95498-1_35

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