Shakespeare's genius as a creative playwright can be judged both subjectively and objectively. Cognitive psychology uses specific behavioral measures to assess performance. A product is marked by latency, quantity, and quality. When college students engage in tests of originality, these measures support many theories of creativity. A similar…

If there is a dominant theme in the research on the "production of culture," it is the tension between creativity and constraint. Constraints are imposed by the structures and processes of culture-producing industries and organizations in the attempt to cope with the uncertainties of generating and marketing cultural products. Yet the…

Research supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant No. MH-10233-01 and by Subcontract No. 2 of the Center for Urban Education's Contract OEC-1-6-062868-2039.

The possibility of a time sensitive relationship between scores on the Dean Miholasky precognition test and those on Activity 2 of the Torrance Test for Creative Thinking was investigated with 58 freshmen students in a school of engineering. The Torrance Test consists of three activities that present a series of figural stimuli to the subject who…

THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ESTABLISH THE CONCURRENT VALIDITY OF THE MINNESOTA TESTS OF CREATIVE THINKING, ABBREVIATED FORM VII, (MTCT VII) BY DETERMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ITS SCORES AND CREATIVE ABILITY AS MEASURED BY ACCUMULATED TEACHER RATINGS OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS PROJECTS AND INVESTIGATOR-DEVELOPED TESTS OF CREATIVITY. THE…

The assumption underlying the ideas presented in this study is that each of these two types of scientific creativity is accompanied by a specific psychological approach on the part of the scientist to his or her world of experience. A schema is presented for illustrating the processes of scientific perception, thinking, formulation, testing, and…

The author reviews the literature and offers recommendations regarding the measurement and identification of creative potential. The assessment of creative thinking in measures of intellectual ability is discussed, and various definitions of creativity are cited. Measurement problems are identified and several creativity measures (especially the…

This study investigated social intelligence in relation to individuals coping with other persons. In terms of structure of intellect theory, the first of these two areas includes six behavioral cognition abilities, one for each kind of product or mental construct of information. The second includes six behavioral divergent production abilities,…

The relationship between two personality characteristics, creativity and risk-taking, was investigated in fifth grade students, ages 9-11 years (N equals 291). Creativity was explored by examing the factors of ideational fluency, spontaneous flexibility, originality, and elaboration. Risk-taking, studied in a classroom testing situation, was…

This project studied pupil creativity in terms of the interdependence of the affective and cognitive domains. The relationships of the two facets were studied over the period of a full school year with 945 fifth grade pupils from a small urban district. Over the period of the study, growth was apparent in both domains. Parallel testings of the two…

Reported was the 3-year longitudinal study on the influence of a living arts center of a public school system on the development of creative behavior in adolescents. Both experimental and control groups (adolescents in grades seven through 10) of 188 each were divided into high, middle, and low creative groups based on test scores from a…

THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH WAS TO CONDUCT A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE DENNY, RUSCH, IVES CLASSROOM OBSERVATION SCHEDULE DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY THE COMPLEX OF TEACHER AND PUPIL BEHAVIORS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO PUPIL GAIN IN CREATIVITY. INTERRELATIONS OF PUPIL GAINS IN CREATIVITY WITH TEACHER PUPIL BEHAVIOR VARIABLES WERE ANALYZED. THE SAMPLE WAS…

This study evaluated the hypothesis that affective components of creativity (attitudes, values, interest, motivations) may be strengthened in a university creativity course. A two-group, two-test design was used. For each class, the after-training creativity test scores were significantly higher than the before-training scores of the other class.…

Two frequent criticisms, that they are "merely verbal," and inimical to "higher" functions, notably creativity, are argued as not intrinsic to "objective" type tests. (Editor)

Measures of creativity, openness to experience, and sensation seeking were intercorrelated among female (N=51) and male (N=49) college students. Male creativity correlated most strongly with openness to theoretical and aesthetic experiences and creative thoughts. For females, creativity, openness to inner experiences, and sensation seeking were…