A significant relationship was found between changes in social emotional status and creativity. Creative and social-emotional changes occurred independently of most variables known about a child at the beginning of treatment. (Author)

The effectiveness of a gifted program emphasizing creativity with 91 gifted Ss (grades 3 to 6) was compared to a control program for 78 gifted age matched Ss. Experimental Ss made significantly higher scores on post-tests of figural, semantic, and symbolic creativity. (CL)

Introduces a revolving-door model for identifying and teaching the gifted that allows students to move into and out of special programs as the need arises. (Author/WD)

A comparison of bisensory media (such as audiovisual films and television) with unisensory media (such as auditory tapes and silent films) indicates that unisensory stimuli evoke more creative responses than do bisensory stimuli. (Author/IRT)

Members of an elders writing workshop reveal what the workshop meant to them. (FL)

Discusses Chaplin's use of satire in his films "Modern Times,""City Lights," and "Limelight" and how these were perceived and misunderstood by his audiences. (JMF)

A review of the literature does not support the hypothesis that creativity can be taught in the schools. (LH)

Argues that incrementalism's weakness is that it is another rational approach to problem solving when what is needed is a nonrational approach--creativity. Offers guidelines for improving creativity in oneself and in the work environment. (IRT)

The paper considers some issues and events in the life of a music composer, and through review of the lives of 57 composers, attempts to discover constructive and destructive variables. (PHR)

Home environments of 43 highly creative and 43 less creative boys in fourth through sixth grade were studied through 150-question semistructured interviews with 86 mothers. Interview responses, categorized along 24 dimensions, revealed significant differences related to parental creativity, independence and flexibility, emotional distance, and…

Large bodies of literature have supported the necessity of gifted programs for either the intellectually superior or the creative-productive thinker, but few have actively sought to establish programs which systematically combine the two. A promising union of these two categoreis may identify a group previously ignored, but whose characteristics…

The author stresses the importance of including foreign language in the education of gifted children. Bilingualism, the author asserts, aids the development of mental abilities which assist in using language creatively. (PHR)

Aspects of creativity and the relationship between creativity and values clarification are discussed. Creativity-oriented student behaviors (such as identifying problems that need to be solved or resolved) are identified and three ways in which values clarification enhances creativity are explored. (PHR)

The article discusses a model of personality characteristics associated with creative productivity in women, which was developed by C.B. Bruch and J.A. Morse, and its use as a diagnostic-prescriptive tool in freeing a woman's creative potential. (DLS)

The author discusses definitions of creativity through research and analogy and suggests that since some of mankind's most compelling needs underlie the creative process, a denial of those needs results in illness. Physiological and psychological reasons for the therapeutic nature of creative problem solving are considered. (CL)