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Creativity seems to be something that many of us think we understand, but understand in different ways. Barron and Harrington (1981) describe how definitions of creativity vary according to different attributes, such as, elegance, beauty of the product, nature of impact, achievement and personal ability. The word ‘create’ means that something that was not there before is made to appear. The matter used in a creative process can be anything from clay to non-conscious thoughts. In the present chapter we use creativity as a characterization of how a decision maker structures and processes information in a decision problem. The invention of new decision problems, new alternatives, restructuring of alternatives can, to some degree, serve as indicators of creative decision making. The generation of goals or objectives in a given situation, can also reflect a decision maker’s creativity (c.f., Keeney, 1992).
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Salo, I., Svenson, O. (2001). Constructive Psychological Processes Before and after a Real-Life Decision. In: Allwood, C.M., Selart, M. (eds) Decision Making: Social and Creative Dimensions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9827-9_7
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