Introduction to Special Issue: A Creative Collaboration.

This special issue of I The Psychological Record i marks a concerted and consistent effort on the part of all involved to tackle an important and interesting area of study that is often not directly addressed in the science of behavior: creativity. As such it rejects the notion that artistic behavior is an internal process and trait in favor of behavior-environmental contingencies. The extinction burst is necessary, but not sufficient, to produce novel behavior: the process of extinction involves varying behavior along some dimension(s), but reinforcement is what makes continuing with the process likely. [Extracted from the article]

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