Robert Platt Crawford

Thinkers1893 to 1970Journalism professor

Works

  • The Techniques of Creative Thinking, 1954

In Thinking Tools

Known for

A University of Nebraska journalism professor who taught creative thinking there and is credited with attribute listing: list the attributes of an object or problem, then change each one in turn to generate new ideas.

Caveat: One author database lists an earlier book under a similar title dated 1950; library catalogs give The Techniques of Creative Thinking as Hawthorn Books, 1954.

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