COOPERATION BETWEEN YA. A. PONOMAREV AND M. G. YAROSHEVSKY IN DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATIVITY AND REFLECTION

Scientific activity of two leading experts in psychology of creativity - Ya.A. Ponimarev and M.G. Yaroshevsky - is examined. Comparative existential-psychological analysis of life courses of these scientists as a background for development of their scientific thinking is done. Significance of cooperation between Ponomarev and Yaroshevsky for development of domestic schools for study of creativity, thinking and reflection is characterized. Special attention is paid for analysis of early period in scientists' study of scientific creativity (in the Institute of History of Natural Science and Engineering of AS USSR) as an initial basis for the further researches in the field of psychology of creativity in IP RAS and within all-USSR section "Psychology of Creativity" in Association of Psychologists of USSR that was founded by Ya.A. Ponomarev. M.G. Yaroshevsky's integrated scientific strategy for scientific creativity study and Ya.A. Ponomarev's system-psychological strategy for creative thinking and system of creativity development study is clarified. Further realization of these strategies in modern scientific schools of psychology of creativity, thinking and reflection is revealed.