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Looking Forward: The Potential of Creativity for Social Justice and Equity (and Other Exciting Outcomes)
Author(s) -
Kaufman James C.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/jocb.195
Subject(s) - creativity , equity (law) , social justice , economic justice , psychology , sociology , social equality , social psychology , positive economics , engineering ethics , political science , social science , economics , law , engineering
This brief essay argues for the importance for more work on how creativity predicts positive outcomes, with a particular emphasis on expanding our definitions of these positive outcomes. The way that creativity may lead to increased equity and social justice is used as an example of these type of potential research questions.