The Emotional Perceptive Cycle Theory of Creative Thought Formation
Feeling tone theory offers new insights into understanding how we form creative thoughts and points out new ways for improving education. It comprises the synthesis of William Gray’s emotional-cognitive structure theory and Paul LaViolette’s emotional-perceptive cycle theory.
In 1983, Dr. LaViolette served as consultant to Hughes Aircraft Corporation in Los Angeles in which he described the feeling tone theory of creative thought formation to upper and mid management personnel suggesting ways they could stimulate employee creativity. Dr. William Gray, Lucille Gray, and Aristide Escher were also part of the consulting team. One Hughes CEO later disclosed that they had saved over $40 million by applying these creativity stimulating principles to their work force. This individual also said that he had shared these creativity-stimulating ideas with CEOs of other major corporations.
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The article "Teaching with Feeling in Mind" by Paul LaViolette
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Musician Steve Roach describes his creative process in terms of feeling tones
Book: A Systems View of Man, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, edited by P. LaViolette
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