Creativity can be measured with a variety of methods including self-reports, others reports, and ability tests. While typical self-reports are best understood as weak proxies of creativity, biographical reports that assess previous creative activities seem more promising. Drawbacks of such measures -- including skewed item distributions, a lack of…

Divergent thinking (DT) tests are very often used in creativity studies. Certainly DT does not guarantee actual creative achievement, but tests of DT are reliable and reasonably valid predictors of certain performance criteria. The validity of DT is described as reasonable because validity is not an all-or-nothing attribute, but is, instead, a…

Creative reading of fiction is defined in this paper as the unique addition by readers, in their imaginations, to the author's plot, setting, and characterization. The test for the creative reading of fiction, described in this paper, contains three parts (each an incomplete narrative) for determining how creatively readers can complete…