Imagine: How Creativity Works

Imagine: How Creativity Works is the third non-fiction book by Jonah Lehrer, published in 2012. It explores brain science, and creativity and its social aspects.[1] By July 2012, the book had been recalled by its publisher due to factual inaccuracies.[2]

Imagine: How Creativity Works
Hardcover edition
AuthorJonah Lehrer
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBrain science, creativity
PublisherHoughton Mifflin
Publication date
2012
Pages279
ISBN9780547386072

Fabrication of quotations

In July 2012, Lehrer acknowledged that he fabricated some quotes attributed to Bob Dylan.[3] Sale of the electronic book as well as physical shipment of the book has been halted.[3]

In an article on August 10, Steve Myers alleged that quotes from magician Teller, of the performance duo Penn and Teller, were fake, after a fan saw a discrepancy in previous quotes from Teller from an article in 2009 in Wired magazine, also by Lehrer.[4] Teller confirmed that the quotes from the Wired article in 2009[5] were accurate, while the ones from Imagine: How Creativity Works were not.

gollark: You were implying I was using linear algebra.
gollark: Sure, my model may be "bad" and "have almost no predictive power", but at least it exists.
gollark: Utter Macron author.
gollark: Why don't YOU make a better model if you dislike it?!
gollark: It's literally just a logistic regression. No "linear algebra".

See also

References
  1. Lengel, Kerry (March 31, 2012). "'Republic' April book pick: 'Imagine: How Creativity Works'". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
  2. Kellogg, Carolyn (July 30, 2012). "Jonah Lehrer's Bob Dylan quotes lead to resignation". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  3. Associated Press. "Author acknowledges fake Dylan quotes, resigns", omg Yahoo!, July 30, 2012.
  4. Myers, Steve. "Another false quotation found in Jonah Lehrer’s ‘Imagine’" Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Poynter Institute, August 10, 2012.
  5. Jonah Lehrer. "Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion", Wired magazine, April 20, 2009.


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