Fifty young adults (and one 82-year-old) identified as creative by graduate students were interviewed. Content analysis was performed on information from the interviews, which usually addressed 10 questions on the individual's perceptions of creativity, interests, definition of creativity, creative processes, facilitating conditions, and obstacles…

The dimensionality of original thinking in gifted children was investigated using measures designed to control for the ideational fluency/originality confounding and for task ambiguity in 315 gifted fourth to sixth graders. Ss were instructed to give only one response on each originality task rather than to give as many as possible and were…

The paper examines variables involved in creativity and suggests ways in which gifted adolescents may be helped to isolate conditions under which they get their best ideas. Among variables considered are the hypnagogic state (physical and mental condition just before sleep), the hynopompic state (physiological and mental condition upon awakening),…

The artistic quality of creativity is not unique to artists but is carried out more skillfully by those who are artists than by those who are not. The artist participates with the rest of humanity in the essential part of creativity, communication, and develops a consonance--a resonance--between the work of art and the audience. The ritual of…

The paper reviews theory and research in the area of creative thinking and behavior. Theoretical interpretations or explanations of creative thinking are classified into five categories: definitional (introspective opinions on the nature of creativity), dispositional (Personality-based), psychoanalytic, behavioristic (traditional S-R psychology),…

Theoretical considerations indicating the effects of bereavement and orphanhood are offered to explain the relationship between achievement and parental loss as well as that between the genius and the disturbed psychotic. (Author)

Two-dimensional consciousness is the reality of our phenomenal consciousness, whose contents are varied. Several descriptions as to its contents are presented. These descriptions prepare the groundwork for discussion of the significance of scribbling. (Author/RK)

The gifted child movement and the creativity movement are discussed in terms of their history and their proper interrelationships and places in the larger gestalt of humanistic psychology. (DLS)

The role of parents in nurturing their bright or creative child is described; and activities such as reading aloud together, encouraging the child's special interest, and participating in community group efforts are suggested. (CL)

The author reviews studies supporting the individuality of children and provides guidelines for parents of highly creative children. (SBH)