The society we live in "requires" creativity and such a request comes from many different fields. Even though a growing body of research stressed the importance of fostering childrens creativity, few attention is paid to investigate childrens conceptions about creativity, that is, implicit theories. The main purpose of this work is to investigate childrens creativity focusing on specific mental mechanisms involved in the creative process in order to catch any developmental changes and in order to explore the role of implicit theories. The book starts from a review of several contributions...