This is the third of a series of listings dealing with instruments that have been used in the study of creative behavior and creative talent. Included is a reference with each test description. (Editor/CB)

It was hypothesized that individuals taking a test of creative thinking in dyads would attain a higher level of originality, and experience stronger feelings of stimulation, enjoyment, and originality of expression than individuals working alone under standard test conditions. Findings supported the hypotheses. (Author/TA)

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between measures of creativity and to determine how success on one measure might be used to predict success for Blacks on another. (Author)

A study of 115 undergraduate psychology students was undertaken to determine (1) if the average college student could fake the response pattern of a highly creative person or an uncreative drudge, (2) if a social desirability scale could detect fakers, and (3) if high creativity is fakable, whether positive traits are more easily faked than…

The purposes of this article are (1) to report empirical findings of studies of original or creative thinking in preschoolers, (2) to point out important issues to be considered in measuring the creativity of preschool children, and (3) to discuss the practical implications of these findings and issues. Research conducted at the Virginia…

Analysis of scores on three divergent production tests taken by 59 gifted students (grades 4-6) sought to isolate three variables assumed to be factors of divergent production: ideational fluency, spontaneous flexibility, and originality. Results cast doubt on the existence of spontaneous flexibility and originality as valid cognitive factors.…

The author identifies and describes what he regards as 25 of the most significant outcomes or products of 25 years of creativity research. Some were selected for the influence they have had on educational practices; others were selected for their potential in making a difference in future educational practice. (JN)

The present study was designed to measure creativity changes in counselors. The findings suggest that the increase in authoritarianism in counselors may result from the more management oriented role that counselors are expected to assume. (Author)

A 22-year longitudinal study of the "Just Suppose" Test is reported. Five criteria of later achievement were correlated with such test measures as fluency, originality, and emotional expression. Correlation coefficients were statistically significant in 27 of the 35 cells with the overall Creativity Index being most predictive of…

This paper explores definitions of creativity, theories and models of creativity, and the classic stages of creativity. Creativity is best defined in terms of an interactive process. The creative process in adults often results in creative and useful products, and such creativity is judged in terms of their quantity and quality of patents,…

Despite aversive criticism, creativity research has produced sound though diverse theories; deliberate application in education, business, and everyday life; and the integration of creativity in the school curriculum and methodology. Due to the development of two new measures of verbal originality, contained in "Thinking Creatively with Sounds and…

This study was designed to investigate the relationships among mathematical creativity, numerical aptitude and mathematical achievement. Mathematical creativity was operationally defined as the ability to give numerous, different and applicable responses when presented with a mathematical situation in written, graphic or chart form; it was tested…

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.…