In one experiment, 78 adolescents were shown humorous film clips and required to write captions for cartoons. A creativity test was administered. In a second study, the experimental group completed the Torrance Creativity Test with humorous responses. In both studies, a humorous atmosphere was found to significantly increase creativity scores.…

A traditional question is whether or not computers shall ever think like humans. This question is redirected to a discussion of whether computers shall ever be truly creative. Creativity is defined and a program is described that is designed to complete creatively a series problem in mathematics. (MP)

In a follow-up study, college seniors who had been trained in creative thinking as freshmen could not be distinguished from untrained peers in a creativity test. (JD)

The article proposes the Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production as an appropriate culture-fair assessment to identifying creative potential worldwide. Fifteen sample drawings of children from around the world, all based on the same original stimuli, are provided. (DB)

Examined the relationship between dramatic play and creativity from three perspectives: (1) the existing theories related to the association; (2) the research on this issue; and (3) some situational factors of dramatic play related to this relationship. Most of the research supports the relationship between dramatic play and creativity, noting the…

An interview with E. Paul Torrance reviews research into creativity in the second half of the 20th century and his own research centering on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as an indicator of creativity. Trends in current research identified include cross-cultural aspects of creativity, multiple ways of creative thinking, and the systems…

This article uses the metaphor of game in examining how 26 successful Finnish scientists defined and depicted their creative processes. Life-story interviews were analyzed in terms of various stages and characteristics of creative processes suggesting a collage-like dialogue that creates multiple layers of meanings to illustrate the creativity…

This study compared scores on two divergent thinking tests, the Verbal and the Figural Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT), with scores on two creativity interest inventories, Davis's How Do You Think? and Raudsepp's How Creative Are You? The creativity interest inventories showed weak correlations with the Verbal TTCT and no correlations…

Article attempted to define the creative process with a brief characterization of creative thought. (Author/RK)

This inventory describes federally aided projects in the state of Delaware involved with innovative educational change and funded by ESEA Title III. Of the 28 projects abstracted, 15 are current and 13 have been terminated. The projects extend as far back as FY 1967. Subject matter of the projects ranges across many areas, including the following:…

Listed and described are 10 types of humor in art, including homomorphic rhyme, metamorphic rhyme, radical juxtaposition, displacement and exaggeration. (CL)

Reviews the autobiography of Fritz Heider and discusses it in light of current knowledge about creativity and adult development. Suggests that the field of human development and life-span psychology should study the poetics of human development. (Author/BE)

Listing of recent works as reported in Dissertation Abstracts. (Author)