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McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
This document presents the proceedings of the 27th Annual Research Forum held June 29, 2023, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following fifteen action research papers: (1) The Effects of Real-World Mathematics Activities on High School Students' Attitudes (Alexa Altizer); (2) An Investigation of the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Mathematics Activities, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Skalicky, Stephen; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Muldner, Kasia – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Creativity is commonly assessed using divergent thinking tasks, which measure the fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration of participant output on a variety of different tasks. This study assesses the degree to which creativity can be identified based on linguistic features of participants' language while completing collaborative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Linguistics
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Greengross, Gil; Miller, Geoffrey – Intelligence, 2011
A good sense of humor is sexually attractive, perhaps because it reveals intelligence, creativity, and other "good genes" or "good parent" traits. If so, intelligence should predict humor production ability, which in turn should predict mating success. In this study, 400 university students (200 men and 200 women) completed…
Descriptors: Prediction, Intelligence, Structural Equation Models, Cartoons
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Kline, Linda M.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1990
Evaluated whether viewing violent video material affects cognitive task performance. College students (N=186) were placed in one of four conditions (humorous video, neutral video, violent video, or receiving a gift before performing a cognitive task). Results suggest watching violent video material has deleterious effects on cognitive task…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Creativity, Higher Education
Treadwell, Yvonne – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Ability, Cartoons, College Students, Creativity
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Thorson, James A.; Powell, F. C. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1993
Administered Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale and Edwards Personal Preference Schedule to 426 adults, aged 18 through 90. Findings suggest that men create humor more, although women used more coping humor. As age increased, so did humor creativity, coping humor, and humor appreciation. Those who sought to create humor appeared to have need…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, College Students, Creativity
Brodzinsky, David M.; Rubien, Janet – Journal of Counsulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
High- and low-creative male and female college students were asked to devise humorous captions to cartoons containing sexual, aggressive, or neutral themes. Results indicate that males generated funnier captions than females to sexual and aggressive stimuli but not to neutral stimuli. Moreover, creativity was positively related to humor…
Descriptors: Cartoons, College Students, Creativity, Creativity Tests