Towards a Theory of Creativity

Rogers · Origins, Trust & Interpersonal · ETC: A Review of General Semantics (1954); reprinted in Vernon, Creativity (1970) · 1954 · Open access

The paper that coined the term 'psychological safety'. Rogers argued that creativity requires two external conditions: psychological safety — established through unconditional worth, absence of external evaluation, and empathic understanding — and psychological freedom. Predates Schein & Bennis by eleven years and Kahn by 36.

Rogers, C.R. (1954) 'Towards a theory of creativity', ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 11(4), pp. 249–260. Reprinted in Vernon, P.E. (ed.) (1970) Creativity. Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp. 137–151.

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