Open AccessA FIELD STUDY OF NONVERBAL CREATIVITY 1
Author(s) -
Ward William C.,
Warren Patricia A.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1971.tb00620.x
Subject(s) - creativity , respondent , contest , socioeconomic status , psychology , social psychology , nonverbal communication , dimension (graph theory) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , demography , mathematics , sociology , political science , population , pure mathematics , law
Creative products submitted in response to a contest were examined to discover whether creativity was related to the sex and socioeconomic status of the respondent and whether characteristics of the objects could be specified which would predict their level of rated creativity. No sex difference was found, but socioeconomic status was significantly associated with creativity for those objects to which at least a moderate amount of effort had been devoted. Ratings of the objects on several simple dimensions proved effective in predicting rated creativity. Judges differed on which dimension best predicted their creativity ratings, but differences between subsets of the objects were of greater importance than individual differences among judges in determining the bases on which the ratings were made.