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.
View the letters they sent:
- 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 of New Horizons for Learning
- Hazel Henderson, Co-Director, Princeton Center for Alternative Futures
Papers Published on Feelingtone Theory:
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.