Divergent thinking tests are often used in creativity research as measures of creative
potential. However, measurement approaches across studies vary to a great extent. One …

The development of divergent thinking (DT) in school-age children and adolescents has
received considerable attention in the educational psychology literature since the 1970s. A …

Several theories posit that creative people are able to generate more divergent ideas. If this
is correct, simply naming unrelated words and then measuring the semantic distance …

Creativity research requires assessing the quality of ideas and products. In practice,
conducting creativity research often involves asking several human raters to judge …

Associative theories of creativity argue that creative cognition involves the abilities to
generate remote associations and make useful connections between unrelated concepts in …

Nearly 40 years ago, Torrance (1970) lamented that “Children are so accustomed to the one
correct or best answer that they may be reluctant to think of other possibilities or to build up a …

Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of
responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual …

Exploring personality characteristics that distinguish creative people from others has been a
topic of interest for decades. Past research on creativity and the Big Five showed some clear …

Within creativity research, interest and capability in utilizing text-mining models to quantify
the Originality of participant responses to Divergent Thinking tasks has risen sharply over …

This article (a) draws from various theories of creativity (eg, 4P and 6P theories) and (b) uses
several concepts from the creativity literature (eg, self-actualization, emergence) to evaluate …