Thirty-two males were divided into high and low creative groups based on the Pcmote Associates Test and the Alternate Uses Test. High creatives exhibited a lower basal alpha index, a higher harm!. theta index, differential amounts of alpha on creativity and intelligence tests, and were better at alpha control in a feedback situation taan low creatives. Key words; creativity, cortical activation...

the present study aims to determine the psychometric characteristics of the watson–glaser critical thinking test among employees in the iranian national oil company. for this purpose, 380 employees referred to ‘the assessment center’in 1390-91 were selected through random sampling method  . the research method is a descriptive – instrument maling one. in which two tests were used:  1)watson–gla...

A significant aspect of creativity is its elusive mystery. Unlike pure novelty or pure originality and adaptability, creative ideas have an aura of something which is unanticipated, yet, in a way not completely surprising, but providing insight into familiar ideas. This position paper wishes to focus on this mysterious aspect of creativity and discusses uncertainty and the creative gap as aspec...

Functional diversity is central to the performance of product development teams in that multiple perspectives increase the team’s creativity. Failures in cross-functional product development teams (CFPDTs) are often attributed to a team’s inability to capitalize on their diversity. In this study we develop and test a model based on the representational gaps perspective (Cronin & Weingart, 2007a...

Creative teams can help software companies to grow and to obtain advantage. It is important for contemporary educational units to increase student team creativity in information system development and provide training for student teams to product creative results. A survey design was selected to collect data and test the proposed model. Thirty-six teams (204 students) enrolling in an informatio...

The Relationship between Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies, Emotional Creativity, and Happiness among Primary School Teachers M. Shabanpour M. Hafezian, Ph.D. This research was undertaken to identify the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies, emotional creativity, and happiness. The research method was correlational and the statistical population in...

Computational Creativity is the AI subfield in which we study how to build computational models of creative thought in science and the arts. From an engineering perspective, it is desirable to have concrete measures for assessing the progress made from one version of a program to another, or for comparing and contrasting different software systems for the same creative task. We describe the Tur...