One of the claimed benefits of Transcendental Meditation is increased creativity, although the literature neither supports nor negates such a claim. Four groups of 35 subjects each were studied over a six-month period and administered a battery of five creativity measures, both before and after the study period. One group of adults was enrolled in…

Contained in the annotated bibliography are 73 references to research dealing with creativity and gifted children. Research covers such aspects as academic achievement, cognitive processes, creative thinking, individual characteristics, personality, student attitudes, teaching methods, testing, and program evaluation. The bibliography is one in a…

The interdisciplinary relationships among 15 kinds of creative achievement were examined over 130 generations of European history. A P-technique factor analysis located three major interdisciplinary clusters: (a) discursive; (b) presentational; and (c) rationalism-mysticism. (Author)

Final article in series dealing with results of a two-year study of college students. (SP)

To determine if creative behavior could be developed in adolescents, a longitudinal (three year) evaluation of the Living Arts Program (held in the Dayton, Ohio schools) was conducted. An experimental group of 188 eighth, ninth, and tenth graders and a matched control group were compared with analysis by sex. The experimental group had the…

Measures of creativity, openness to experience, and sensation seeking were intercorrelated among female (N=51) and male (N=49) college students. Male creativity correlated most strongly with openness to theoretical and aesthetic experiences and creative thoughts. For females, creativity, openness to inner experiences, and sensation seeking were…

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…

This annotated list of Educational Testing Service research reports includes 1) investigations in which creativity is the major subject of the study, 2) ones in which creativity is a variable, and 3) studies concerned with the development of methods or instruments for use in creativity research. Included are studies, or phases of studies,…

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The Creative Studies Project is an interdisciplinary effort to conduct research into the nature and nurture of creative behavior, and to translate the findings into educational programs. (Authors)

The Unusual Uses subtest of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and the Rotter Social Reaction Inventory were administered to 168 graduate students. Internals were found to have significantly higher scores on the flexibility and originality measures, while the externals had significantly higher elaboration scores. (Author)

The present study examines the role of conceptual tempo on creativity and problem solving. It was hypothesized that reflective children would do well on tasks involving an evaluation component, while impulsive children would do well on typical creativity tasks. Measures of creativity, assessing fluency, flexibility, and originality, as well as…

This paper explores contemporaneous and intergenerational relationships among various scientific endeavors and military activity. Using European historical data from 1500 to 1900 A.D., generational (or 25-yr) fluctuations were examined for nine categories of scientific discovery and invention and for two aspects of military activity. Findings are…

Administrators and supervisory personnel (N=20) of a hospital participated in a workshop in "Creative Management". Participants received eight hours of training in: creative thinking and problem-solving; leadership and group dynamics; and motivation. Comparisons of pre- and posttest ratings revealed gains in both the Leadership and Total Test…

The benefits of incorporating knowledge about creativity into the supervision of doctoral candidates are considered. It is suggested that supervisors of doctoral candidates should use the language of the creative process. The stages of the creative process can serve as a specific, verbalized reference point for supervision. From the beginning of…