Ruth Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 4010059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saybrook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3292-6417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Redefining the (academic) author
This short communication presents the preliminary outcomes of an ongoing project exploring how initial teacher education research features in the UK’s 5–7 yearly national research assessment exercise, Research Excellence Framework (REF). Most recently, REF has reported in 2014 and 2021. Using a novel sampling method and analytic approach, we found that for REF2014, just 5.5% of outputs submitted by our sample of higher education institutions (HEI…
Always, Ilene’s Smile—and Commitment to Arts, Healing, and Post-Traumatic Growth
This tribute begins with Dr. Serlin’s smile, presence, engagement, a group in motion, and a YouTube video. Ilene Serlin was a visionary clinician, dance/movement therapist, advocate for higher human potential, and for global paradigm shift honoring universal interconnection. Her areas of activity are interwoven with awards and distinctions, including “whole person” hospital work in alternative healing, writings, editorial work, teaching, and advo…
Tom Greening—The Incomparable (Tribute Through Tears)
Chaos and Nonlinear Psychology
Transgressive clowns
In his essay 'Horror and Humor' (1999) Noël Carroll muses upon what he considers the somewhat paradoxical existence horror-comedy subgenre in cinema. He finds that the clown best exemplifies the collision of the genres of horror and comedy, as the clown presents an uncanny figure that is at once familiar and unsettling, moving between the monstrous and the humorous. Clowns have maintained a presence in cinema since the earliest days of the medium…
Will the Real Scientists Please Stand Up? Taboo Topics, Creative Risk, and Paradigm Shift
The “real scientist” brings not only investigative ingenuity but also courage and integrity that permit a challenging of the status quo. Here, three issues and their relationship are considered: (a) Taboo Topics as per Norman Farberow’s 1963 book, where conscious/unconscious fears and prohibitions can hinder scientific progress, (b) creative qualities catalyzing open-mindedness and pursuit of truth, and (c) factors heightening or lowering resista…
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education, business, and world cultures. The first section, 'Basic Concepts', is designed to in…
Tackling health inequalities
Government and sector leadership were critical to the success of the workshops and subsequent changes in policy and practice. The use of locally adapted equity tools, requiring participants to develop action plans, and using a case study to focus discussion were important to the success for the training. Using institutional theory was helpful in analysing how drivers of inequalities, such as racism, are built into health institutions. This New Ze…
Frank Barron and the Study of Creativity
The late Frank X. Barron was a remarkable figure in psychology. His monograph, “The Psychology of Creativity,” appeared in New Directions in Psychology at a time when the study of creativity was still new and not well understood. Throughout several decades, Dr. Barron not only helped bring the field of creativity to a high degree of sophistication, but this wide-ranging thinker and researcher changed in significant ways how we think about excepti…
A New Aesthetic for Environmental Awareness
Can beauty help us adapt, evolve, and cope with environmental crisis? This article challenges the longstanding Kantian view that beauty is “disinterested,” while linking Kant’s view of the sublime with chaos theory and the fractal forms of nature. We humans participate in beauty as open systems in ongoing process, coevolving with all of existence. Beauty offers us conscious awareness and resonance with deeper life patterns. We sense our interconn…
Beyond Piaget
We may unfortunately resist, devalue, and frankly pathologize divergent and creative thought—all the more worrisome now in a world requiring increasing awareness and creative flexibility
Does the Lone Genius Ride Again? Chaos, Creatwity, and Conmmunity
Montuori and Purser (1995), in "Decontructing the Lone Genius Myth," and Hale (1995), in "Psychological Characteristics of the Literary Genius," are perhaps closer together than one might think. The first authors do not deconstruct the lone genius, but rather the lone aspect of this genius, with attention to the context for creativity. Hale does not deem context unimportant but emphasizes situations in which the creator might stand more in reacti…
Assessing everyday creativity
Does the Lone Genius Ride Again? Chaos, Creatwity, and Conmmunity
Montuori and Purser (1995), in "Decontructing the Lone Genius Myth," and Hale (1995), in "Psychological Characteristics of the Literary Genius," are perhaps closer together than one might think. The first authors do not deconstruct the lone genius, but rather the lone aspect of this genius, with attention to the context for creativity. Hale does not deem context unimportant but emphasizes situations in which the creator might stand more in reacti…
A New Aesthetic for Environmental Awareness
Can beauty help us adapt, evolve, and cope with environmental crisis? This article challenges the longstanding Kantian view that beauty is “disinterested,” while linking Kant’s view of the sublime with chaos theory and the fractal forms of nature. We humans participate in beauty as open systems in ongoing process, coevolving with all of existence. Beauty offers us conscious awareness and resonance with deeper life patterns. We sense our interconn…
Frank Barron and the Study of Creativity
The late Frank X. Barron was a remarkable figure in psychology. His monograph, “The Psychology of Creativity,” appeared in New Directions in Psychology at a time when the study of creativity was still new and not well understood. Throughout several decades, Dr. Barron not only helped bring the field of creativity to a high degree of sophistication, but this wide-ranging thinker and researcher changed in significant ways how we think about excepti…
Transgressive clowns
In his essay 'Horror and Humor' (1999) Noël Carroll muses upon what he considers the somewhat paradoxical existence horror-comedy subgenre in cinema. He finds that the clown best exemplifies the collision of the genres of horror and comedy, as the clown presents an uncanny figure that is at once familiar and unsettling, moving between the monstrous and the humorous. Clowns have maintained a presence in cinema since the earliest days of the medium…
Assessing everyday creativity
Beyond Piaget
We may unfortunately resist, devalue, and frankly pathologize divergent and creative thought—all the more worrisome now in a world requiring increasing awareness and creative flexibility
Does the Lone Genius Ride Again? Chaos, Creatwity, and Conmmunity
Montuori and Purser (1995), in "Decontructing the Lone Genius Myth," and Hale (1995), in "Psychological Characteristics of the Literary Genius," are perhaps closer together than one might think. The first authors do not deconstruct the lone genius, but rather the lone aspect of this genius, with attention to the context for creativity. Hale does not deem context unimportant but emphasizes situations in which the creator might stand more in reacti…
A New Aesthetic for Environmental Awareness
Can beauty help us adapt, evolve, and cope with environmental crisis? This article challenges the longstanding Kantian view that beauty is “disinterested,” while linking Kant’s view of the sublime with chaos theory and the fractal forms of nature. We humans participate in beauty as open systems in ongoing process, coevolving with all of existence. Beauty offers us conscious awareness and resonance with deeper life patterns. We sense our interconn…
Frank Barron and the Study of Creativity
The late Frank X. Barron was a remarkable figure in psychology. His monograph, “The Psychology of Creativity,” appeared in New Directions in Psychology at a time when the study of creativity was still new and not well understood. Throughout several decades, Dr. Barron not only helped bring the field of creativity to a high degree of sophistication, but this wide-ranging thinker and researcher changed in significant ways how we think about excepti…
Tackling health inequalities
Government and sector leadership were critical to the success of the workshops and subsequent changes in policy and practice. The use of locally adapted equity tools, requiring participants to develop action plans, and using a case study to focus discussion were important to the success for the training. Using institutional theory was helpful in analysing how drivers of inequalities, such as racism, are built into health institutions. This New Ze…
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education, business, and world cultures. The first section, 'Basic Concepts', is designed to in…
Will the Real Scientists Please Stand Up? Taboo Topics, Creative Risk, and Paradigm Shift
The “real scientist” brings not only investigative ingenuity but also courage and integrity that permit a challenging of the status quo. Here, three issues and their relationship are considered: (a) Taboo Topics as per Norman Farberow’s 1963 book, where conscious/unconscious fears and prohibitions can hinder scientific progress, (b) creative qualities catalyzing open-mindedness and pursuit of truth, and (c) factors heightening or lowering resista…
Transgressive clowns
In his essay 'Horror and Humor' (1999) Noël Carroll muses upon what he considers the somewhat paradoxical existence horror-comedy subgenre in cinema. He finds that the clown best exemplifies the collision of the genres of horror and comedy, as the clown presents an uncanny figure that is at once familiar and unsettling, moving between the monstrous and the humorous. Clowns have maintained a presence in cinema since the earliest days of the medium…
Chaos and Nonlinear Psychology
Tom Greening—The Incomparable (Tribute Through Tears)
Redefining the (academic) author
This short communication presents the preliminary outcomes of an ongoing project exploring how initial teacher education research features in the UK’s 5–7 yearly national research assessment exercise, Research Excellence Framework (REF). Most recently, REF has reported in 2014 and 2021. Using a novel sampling method and analytic approach, we found that for REF2014, just 5.5% of outputs submitted by our sample of higher education institutions (HEI…
Always, Ilene’s Smile—and Commitment to Arts, Healing, and Post-Traumatic Growth
This tribute begins with Dr. Serlin’s smile, presence, engagement, a group in motion, and a YouTube video. Ilene Serlin was a visionary clinician, dance/movement therapist, advocate for higher human potential, and for global paradigm shift honoring universal interconnection. Her areas of activity are interwoven with awards and distinctions, including “whole person” hospital work in alternative healing, writings, editorial work, teaching, and advo…
Psychology (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Creativity (5 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works)