Creative Thought as Blind Variation and Selective Retention: Why Creativity Is Inversely Related to Sightedness

Dean Keith Simonton's paper on creative thought as blind variation and selective retention, arguing that creativity is inversely related to sightedness. Both papers cite it, with Campbell and Sternberg, for the distinction between blind variants, which arise independently of the conditions that select them, and sighted ones, tried more often the fitter they promise to be. This defines sighted variation (P4).

Cited in

both papers (Flagship: Evolution by design; Companion §6.1)

Used for

P4P4

Strand

Evolution & heredity · Cultural, technological & creative evolution

Cite

@article{simonton2013creative,
  title = {Creative Thought as Blind Variation and Selective Retention: Why Creativity Is Inversely Related to Sightedness},
  author = {Dean Keith Simonton},
  year = {2013},
  journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology},
  doi = {10.1037/a0030705},
}