This report presents and evaluates a simple thesis: that privacy, a manifestation of human territoriality, is a fundamental bio-social need. Aggression can serve to insure privacy. Privacy, then, allows one the freedom to explore the environment. It permits intimacy with others, and it fosters access to one's own inner feelings and experiences, a…

These studies were conducted to verify and elaborate upon the work of Dr. John L. Holland. Dr. Holland (1959) found that teacher ratings have limited value as predictors of student creativity. The first study was conducted to arrive at or depart from Holland's findings. The second study was conducted to study the relationship of training in the…

Describes recent neurophysical theories regarding the different functions of the brain's left hemisphere (linear, time-oriented, rational, and analytic) and right hemisphere (intuitive, artistic, and creative) and discusses their implications for management science. (Available from Office of Publications, Graduate School of Business…

Discusses the need for teaching creativity in engineering education and ways to develop and encourage creative thinking. (MLH)

Musical creativity can be enhanced in children of all ages through an interdisciplinary approach involving activities combining music with history, geography, mythology, foreign language, biography, psychology and literature. (DB)

Kindergarten children were randomly assigned: free play, make-believe, imitation, and control. Given an alternate-uses test (paper towel, match box, paper clip, and screwdriver), free play and make-believe subjects produced significantly more nonstandard responses for paper clip than control subjects and make-believe subjects more than free play…

This paper is an attempt to build a theoretical model which specifies the impact of certain cognitive variables on the process of political socialization. (Author)

Confronts questions raised about the Montessori method concerning socialization, creativity, permissiveness, and emotional development. (MS)

Concludes that writing fiction and stressing subjective reaction and personal experience are positive approaches in remedial writing courses. (DD)

Describes an assignment for an argumentation paper which helps students define their own position on controversial topics. (DD)

Gifted students should receive reading instruction to encourage them to read more widely, more critically, and more creatively. (DD)

Presents brief descriptions of the ten high school and college newspapers that won the 1976 Pacemaker Awards for journalistic excellence and creative presentation. (GW)

Discusses how teachers have erred on one side to teach the basics of sentence structure, usage, grammar, and spelling and have neglected the other primary basic, creativity. (MB)

A new translation of the French poet's most famous essay in which he discusses his creative process and aesthetic views. (JG)