What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Artificial intelligence
- Cognitive science
- Social psychology
His primary areas of investigation include Creativity, Gestalt psychology, Cognitive psychology, Social psychology and Genius.
Specifically, his work in Creativity is concerned with the study of Creativity technique.
While the research belongs to areas of Gestalt psychology, Robert W. Weisberg spends his time largely on the problem of Experimental psychology, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Cognitive science.
His study in the field of Set is also linked to topics like Pre school.
His work on Divergent thinking, Convergent thinking and Lateral thinking as part of general Social psychology study is frequently linked to Think aloud protocol, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of science.
His Genius research integrates issues from Mythology and Creative problem-solving.
His most cited work include:
- Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius (563 citations)
- Creativity and knowledge: A challenge to theories. (452 citations)
- Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts (396 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His primary areas of study are Creativity, Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, Cognitive science and Gestalt psychology.
Robert W. Weisberg has researched Creativity in several fields, including Mathematics education, Novelty and Genius.
His work carried out in the field of Genius brings together such families of science as Personality and Creative problem-solving.
His studies in Cognitive psychology integrate themes in fields like Developmental psychology, Functional fixedness, Association and Fixation.
His work deals with themes such as Ignorance and Control, which intersect with Social psychology.
His research investigates the connection between Gestalt psychology and topics such as Viewpoints that intersect with issues in Integrated information theory and Educational psychology.
He most often published in these fields:
- Creativity (43.28%)
- Cognitive psychology (34.33%)
- Social psychology (22.39%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?
- Creativity (43.28%)
- Cognitive psychology (34.33%)
- Novelty (5.97%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His scientific interests lie mostly in Creativity, Cognitive psychology, Novelty, Mathematics education and Social psychology.
His research on Creativity frequently connects to adjacent areas such as Cognitive science.
His Cognitive psychology research incorporates elements of Implicit personality theory and Intentionality.
His research integrates issues of Function, Knowledge base and Value in his study of Novelty.
His Mathematics education study frequently involves adjacent topics like Divergent thinking.
His work in the fields of Social psychology, such as Set and Creative thinking, overlaps with other areas such as Opposition.
Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Toward an integrated theory of insight in problem solving (70 citations)
- On the Usefulness of “Value” in the Definition of Creativity (58 citations)
- Expertise, nonobvious creativity, and ordinary thinking in Edison and others: Integrating blindness and sightedness. (10 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Artificial intelligence
- Social science
- Social psychology
The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Creativity, Social psychology, Blindness, Cognitive psychology and Gestalt psychology.
His Creativity research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Value judgment and Knowledge base.
Creativity technique and Novelty are among the areas of Social psychology where the researcher is concentrating his efforts.
His Gestalt psychology study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Creative thinking, Viewpoints, Integrated information theory and Set.
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