In this reply, the authors examine the madness to their method in light of the comments. Overall, the authors agree broadly with the comments; many of the issues will be settled only by future research. The authors disagree, though, that past research has proven past scoring methods—including the Torrance methods—to he satisfactory or satisfying. The authors conclude by offering their own criti...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the effect of methylphenidate (MPH) on creative potential in a group of children with attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD). METHOD A randomized single blind crossover study was performed with 24 children with ADHD, aged between 18 and 96 (M = 10.0, SD = 1.3), evaluating each child’s creativity with and without MPH, using the To...

The author investigated the relationship of thinking styles to modes of thinking. Participants were 371 freshmen (aged 18 and 19) from the University of Hong Kong. Participants responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory (R. J. Sternnberg & R. K. Wagner, 1992) and the Style of Learning and Thinking (Youth Form; E. P. Torrance, B. McCarthy, & M. T. Kolesinski, 1988). A major finding was that crea...

Readers of this Journal are used to considering questions to do with consciousness and subjectivity in humans and other natural creatures. However it is instructive to devote some attention to the realm of artificial subjectivity — as a bare possibility, even if not as a likelihood in the near future. Following the first special issue of this journal on the topic of machine consciousness (Holla...

En la actualidad se tienen programas especiales, desde niveles básicos hasta educación superior, para desarrollar creatividad en superdotados, EEUU, UK y otros países. Sin embargo, de acuerdo a los expertos, todos somos creativos, pero debemos ser formados (o entrenados). Además, sabe independencia con coeficientes intelectuales mayores 120.
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This perspective paper presents an integration of neuroimaging and phenomenological data obtained in a sample that included highly creative, internationally awarded scientists and/or artists. The cerebral blood flow was evaluated during the performance of standardized creativity tasks from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Verbal Form. The phenomenological data comprised both, their exper...

OBJECTIVES It has been widely accepted in the literature that various forms of physical exercise, even in a single session, enhance positive mood. It has also been shown that physical exercise may sometimes enhance creative thinking, but the evidence is inconclusive. Positive moods can favour creative thinking, but the opposite has also been reported and these relations are unclear. There is a ...

Creativity is the ability to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. The present study, funded by Indian Government, analysed the effect of one year chess training program on the creativity of school-going children of both genders. A pre-test post-test with control group design was used. The sample comprised 64 children: 32 chi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The volume of cortical tissue devoted to a function often influences the quality of a person's ability to perform that function. Up to now only white matter correlates of creativity have been reported, and we wanted to learn if the creative visuospatial performance on the figural Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is associated with measurements of cerebral gray ...

Introduction: The aim of this study is to investigate the entrepreneurial traits of school children in the city of Tehran. Methods: For this purpose, 48 students were selected with an average IQ between 90 and 119. Ranging from 7th to 12th grades, all the subjects were assessed using Nowicki-Strickland’s Locus of Control Scale (N-SLCS), Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT), and Hyperki...