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Creative Agency Unbound

Creative Agency Unbound
  • Ronald A. Beghetto, Maciej Karwowski
  • Published online:
    30 September 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025
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  • Creative Agency Unbound explores how individuals transform creative potential into creative actions. Creative agency refers to the self-directed capacity to envision and enact meaningful changes within contextual constraints. This Element introduces the updated Creative Behavior as Agentic Action (CBAA) model, explaining four key decision points that shape creative engagement: Can I do this creatively? (creative confidence), Should I do this creatively? (creative centrality), Will I do this creatively? (creative risk-taking), and How will I do this creatively? (creative self-regulation). Each decision and its related self-belief is discussed in successive sections, integrating theory, research, and practical applications to illustrate how creative self-beliefs motivate creative behaviors. This Element serves as a foundational resource for those seeking to understand, study, and foster the transformation of creative potential into creative action.

  • Chapter 3 - Theory

  • Alex Gillespie, London School of Economics and Political Science, Vlad Glăveanu, Dublin City University, Constance de Saint Laurent, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
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    Pragmatism and Methodology
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
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    25 January 2024, pp 49-73
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    Theories have been viewed as mirrors of nature and fictions tainted by human subjectivity. This chapter contends that theories are tools that enable humans to act and coordinate. It argues that theories are like maps that can get us from A to B and like models that allow us to simulate interventions in the world. It illustrates how these different conceptions of theory have implications for research in the domain of creativity research. Overall, this chapter shows how a pragmatist approach to methodology sensitizes researchers to anomalies, and data can be used to drive theory toward increasingly useful forms.