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Part 1 Introduction: the search for insight - grappling with gestaltpsychology's unanswered questions, Richard E. Mayer; insight andproblem solving, Roger L. Dominowski and Pamela Dallob. Part 2 thepuzzle-problem approach: demystification of cognitive insight -opportunistic assimilation and the prepared-mind perspective, ColleenM. Seifert et al; the suddenness of insight, Janet E. Davidson;prolegomena to theories of insight in problem solving - a taxonomy ofproblems, Robert W. Weisberg; cognitive and affective components ofinsight, Mary L. Gick and Robert S. Lockhart; getting into and out ofmental ruts - a theory of fixation, incubation, and insight, Steven M.Smith. Part 3 The invention-based approach: creative insight andpreinventive forms, Ronald A. Finke; constraints on thinking in insightand invention, Matthew I. Isaak and Marcel Adam Just. Part 4 thegreat-minds approach: creative insight - the social dimension of asolitary moment, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Keith Sawyer; howscientists really reason - scientific reasoning in real-worldlaboratories, Kevin Dunbar; insight and affect in the history ofscience, Howard E. Gruber; the inception of insight, Maria F. Ippolitoand Ryan D. Tweney. Part 5 the metaphors-of-mind approach: foresight ininsight? a Darwinian answer, Dean Keith Simonton; insight in minds andgenes, David N. Perkins; an investment perspective on creative insight,Robert J. Sternberg and Todd I. Lubart. Epilogue: putting insight intoperspective, Jonathan W. Schooler et al.