Available from: Department of Special Education, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608.

Discusses the numbing of creativity our society encourages and suggests elements of a creative behavior program that aims to increase the creative behavior of adults. (TO)

The present study was concerned with the association of basic dimensions of parent-child relationships and the creative potential of the child. Male and female college students, with personality traits frequently associated with creativity tended to describe both parents as more rejecting than loving while they were growing up. (Author)

Paper presented at 18th Annual Convention of the National Association for Gifted Children, Chicago, Illinois, May 7, 1971. (CB)

Creative Ss had a stronger cathexis of research activity and were highly flexible, original, and rejecting of outside influence. They had identified primarily with their fathers, and that their interest in mathematics had arisen from sublimation or search for autonomy in fantasy rather than from reaction formation or withdrawal. (Author)

Changes in concepts of creativity and culture necessitate closer attention to the sociological aspects of creativity. Problems emanate from disregarding the modernization process in our culture, as that process relates to creativity, and from the impact of the contemporary fine arts on creativity research and art education practice. (Author/SR)

Reports on the creative productivity scores achieved by advertising students in a creative strategy course. (HOD)

The personality characteristics of three professional groups, each rated for level of creativity, were investigated using the California Psychological Inventory. Samples of male architects, mathematicians, and research scientists were compared and then combined to allow an over-all pattern of personality characteristics associated with creative…

An eight-week program designed to stimulate fluency, flexibility, and originality proved effective in enhancing the creative thinking skills of 23 fourth grade students. Significant correlations were found to exist between IQ and creativity and between reading achievement and creativity. (GT)

To consider how various measures of creative aptitude might cluster according to task response condition, rather than content, a battery of instruments assumed to reflect creative aptitude behaviors was administered to 90 university undergraduates. (SBH)

This study examined the creative thinking of 32 delinquents on parole and 32 nondelinquent male high school students. Results indicated that although there were no consistent differences between the two groups with respect to figural creativity, there were consistent and significant differences when examining verbal creativity. (Author/SJL)