Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has argued for psychologists to incorporate a sociological focus to their work when investigating creativity.

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has argued for psychologists to incorporate a sociological focus to their work when investigating creativity. He has stated that “we need to abandon the Ptolemaic view of creativity, in which the person is at the centre of everything, for a more Copernican model in which the person is part of a system of mutual influences and information” (in Sternberg 1988, p. 336). Discuss.

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