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.…

Findings indicated that, among college students, problem finding ability is independent of intelligence and field dependence. (Author/SBH)

Using the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT), the study examined whether being classified as having normal, moderate, or severe behavior problems affected the creativity scores of 90 low income, nonmentally retarded boys (ages 8 to 12). (Author/PHR)

Results of a multivariate analysis of variance indicated that upper class children scored better than lower class children on creativity measures, but when IQ or achievement level was covaried, differences between SES groups were not significant. (Author)

Ss were administered Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM), traditional Piagetian measures of conservation of number and mass, modification Piagetian tasks, and the Sequential Assessment Mathematics Inventory. Among findings was that creative thinking ability, as assessed by the TCAM, significantly predicts cognitive performances that…

Results of divergent thinking tests (administered to 228 intermediate school students, of whom about 43 percent were gifted) and calculated correlations between creativity and intelligence measures did not support the threshold theory which posits that creativity and intelligence are related only up to an intelligence quotient of about 120.…

The article explores the history of creativity in general and gives brief personal histories of eight individuals who were multiply creative. The study lists over 150 multiply creative persons, of whom only 31 were women. (PHR)

The "Ideal Pupil Checklist" developed by E. Paul Torrance was administered to 57 student teachers in an undergraduate elementary education program and to 57 cooperating teachers representing 10 separate school systems. Findings supported the need for more extensive inservice training and undergraduate preparation in the area of creative learning.…

The effects of different models of exploration questioning on young children's associative fluency were examined in two experiments with kindergarteners. It is concluded that asking descriptive and difference exploration questions are most facilitative of children's associative fluency. (Author/SEW)

The "Torrance Ideal Child Checklist" was administered to 260 mothers and fathers, and the results were correlated with the judgments of 10 experts on creative personality. The study concluded that parents did not perceive the personality characteristics of creative children favorably or in the same way as the experts did. (JDD)

A comparison was made between perceptions of Indian and American parents regarding traits of their ideal child. There was also considerable agreement about behavior which should be discouraged, many of which traits (negativism, fault finding, stubbornness, and nonconformity) are said to be related to creativity. (CL)

Sixty-four high school students (32 sibling sets) were administered the Figural Form A of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking. Results indicated a significant difference between creativity scores of the first- and second-born Ss on three of four measures: fluency, originality, and elaboration. Sex was not significant. (CL)

Presents longitudinal data on 92 creative young adults in grades 3 through 6 on Sounds and Images, a test of imagery, with four criteria of later creativity: (1) number of post-high school creative achievements, (2) number of creative life-style achievements, (3) quality of creative achievements, and (4) creativeness of career image. (CL)

The author discusses preliminary findings from a 22 year follow-up of adolescent and adult creative behavior of 220 persons from the original elementary student sample. Having a childhood future career image that persisted and having a mentor were consistently related to five criteria of creative achievement. (CL)

The quality of changes in creative functioning resulting from training in ZEN meditation (Zazen) and relaxation training were compared. Pre-posttest changes in the two groups, as revealed by the General Linear Models Procedure, revealed that the meditation group experienced greater perceived change resulting from new conditions, expression of…