Figural Creative Thinking Abilities of United States and Japanese Majors in Education.

Torrance, E. Paul; Sato, Saburo

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Publication Date: 1979

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Figural Creative Thinking Abilities of United States and Japanese Majors in Education.

Torrance, E. Paul; Sato, Saburo

Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, v4 n4 p216-21 Win 1979

The American students excelled their Japanese counterparts only on fluency, while the Japanese excelled the Americans on flexibility in using the stimuli, originality, elaboration, resistance to premature closure, breaking boundaries, unusual visual perspective, internal visual perspective, humor, feeling and emotion, fantasy, and movement. (Author/DLS)

Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Research, Creativity Tests, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Characteristics

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Japan

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