Dream reports of highly creative male high school students were rated by clinical psychologists as exhibiting greater primary process thinking than the dream reports of matched controls; their dream protocols also included a significantly greater proportion of symbolism, condensations, and unusual combinations but a smaller proportion of…

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In contrast to previous findings, extended effort does not indiscriminately enhance figural originality in nonverbal creative problem solving. (Authors/CB)

Lists a number of people who were creative and some who were not. Their example may serve as a guide for students involved in creative effort. (RK)

Urges that schools encourage creativity in pupils so as to promote actualization of self and sound emotional health. (DS)

Study showed that creativity was not highly influenced by perceptual sensitivity or academic achievement; verbal pretraining facilitated idea fluency but not originality. (Author/SP)

Paper prepared for the 18th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, Chicago, Illinois, May 6, 1971. (CB)

This study shows a demonstrable relationship between children's personality traits and the characteristics of their creations and use of materials. (NH)

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)