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Divergent Thinking and Interview Ratings

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2008
This study examined divergent thinking (DT) test scores of applicants taking part in a selection procedure for an undergraduate psychology degree ( N = 370). Interviewers made six specific (creative intelligence, motivation, work habits, emotional stability, sociability, and social responsibility) and one overall recommendation rating on each candidate.
Batey, Mark, Rawles, Richard, Furnham, Adrian   +2 more
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Diverging From Divergent Thinking

Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, 1994
Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1994, Vol 39(3), 291-292. Reviews the book, Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach by John Baer (1993). It is to the work of Guilford that the present volume can be traced.
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REM Deprivation and Divergent Thinking

Psychophysiology, 1978
ABSTRACTThe contribution of REM sleep to divergent thinking was examined. Ten subjects were deprived of REM sleep and of equal length of NREM sleep. In both cases a divergent thinking task was assigned in the evening to be performed in the morning. The subjects' responses after NREM deprivation were numerically greater, included more positive reactions,
H, Glaubman, I, Orbach, O, Aviram, I, Frieder, M, Frieman, O, Pelled, R, Glaubman   +6 more
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DIVERGENT THINKING IN BOYS AND GIRLS*

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1972
SUMMARY Despite many findings of consistent sex differences in verbal and non‐verbal skills, there has been no systematic investigation of the performance of girls and boys on tests of creativity. This is particularly puzzling in view of the unequivocal superiority of the female in terms of verbal fluency.
R, Bhavnani, C, Hutt
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Adolescent Divergent Thinking

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1984
A cross-cultural replication study was conducted to assess divergent thinking in preadolescents and adolescents. Participants (N = 119) were Cantonese-speaking Chinese residents of Hong Kong, recruited through primary and secondary schools. Participants responded in writing to a divergent thinking assessor based on auditory stimuli.
Gail A. Jaquish, Richard E. Ripple
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SITUATIONAL INFLUENCES ON DIVERGENT THINKING

British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
S ummary . Three tests of divergent thinking were administered, along with Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Test, to two matched groups of 10‐ to 11‐year‐old school children in untimed ‘game‐like’ and untimed ‘test‐like’
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Divergent Thinking and Science Specialists

Nature, 1967
EMPIRICAL studies casting doubt on the IQ as an adequate summary of an individual's intellectual capacities1,2 have lent support to the increasing use of tests of “divergent thinking”, and to attempts to show that such tests are usefully related to academic achievement, especially in science3,4.
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Theory of Mind and the Origin of Divergent Thinking

The Journal of Creative Behavior, 1997
ABSTRACTThe development ofa“theory of mind” may not only be important for understanding the minds of others but also for using one's own mind. To investigate this supposition, 40 children between the ages of three and four were given false‐belief and creativity tasks.
Suddendorf, T, FletcherFlinn, CM
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Emotions Behind Divergent Thinking

2021 8th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA), 2021
Zhongxi Lu, Jinli Luo, Hongji Yang
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Divergent thinking and bilingualism

1975
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