Graham Wallas (31 May 1858 - 9 August 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, a leader of the Fabian Society and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
Wallas argued in Great Society (1914) that a social-psychological analysis could explain the problems created by the impact of the industrial revolution on modern society. He contrasts the role of nature and nurture in modern society, concluding that humanity must depend largely on the improvements in nurture, and put his faith in the development of stronger international operation.
Art of Thought, published in 1926, Wallas presented one of the first models of the creative process. In the Wallas stage model, creative insights and illuminations may be explained by a process consisting of 5 stages:
1. Preparation (preparatory work on a problem that focuses the individual's mind on the problem and explores the problem's dimensions)
2. Incubation (where the problem is internalized into the unconscious mind and nothing appears externally to be happening)
3. Intimation (the creative person gets a "feeling" that a solution is on its way)
4. Illumination or insight (where the creative idea bursts forth from its precociousness processing into conscious awareness)
5. Verification (where the idea is consciously verified, elaborated, and then applied)
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