A number of researchers and professionals working in the area of cognitive and educational psychology corresponded with Dr. LaViolette regarding his novel theory of creative thought formation.  To view letters they sent click the links below: Professor Karl Pribram, Neuropsychology Laboratory, Stanford University Professor Walter Freeman, Division of Neurobiology, UC Berkeley Professor Ted Packard, Chairman, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Utah Professor Richard Rowan, Director of Counseling Services, The Evergreen State College Dee Dickinson, Coordinator, New Horizons for Learning Hazel Henderson, Co-Director, Princeton Center for Alternative Futures In 1985 Dr. LaViolette was part of a team consulting for upper and mid management at Hughes Aircraft Corporation in Los Angeles on ways of improving employee creativity.  There he gave a presentation of his theory of creative thought formation. Years later, the Hughes manager who had invited them commented to LaViolette that Hughes had saved $40 million dollars by implementing the ideas he and the others had presented.

 

Published Papers

1) Gray, William "Understanding creative thought processes: An early formulation of the emotional-cognitive structure theory." Man-Environment Systems 9 (1979):314.

2) LaViolette, Paul A. "Thoughts about thoughts about thoughts: The emotional-perceptive cycle theory." Man-Environment Systems 9 (1979):1547.

3) LaViolette, Paul. A. "The thermodynamics of the aha experience." Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for General Systems Research, San Francisco, Jan. 1980; Reprinted in: (1982) W. Gray, et al. (eds.) General Systems Theory and the Psychological Sciences (Vol. I). Intersystems Press, CA.