Divergent thinking: New methods, recent research, and extended theory.

S Acar, MA Runco - Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
This article reviews research on divergent thinking (DT) and the new methods that have
recently been developed. Special attention is given to the theory of Literal DT, where …

Automating creativity assessment with SemDis: An open platform for computing semantic distance

RE Beaty, DR Johnson - Behavior research methods, 2021 - Springer
Creativity research requires assessing the quality of ideas and products. In practice,
conducting creativity research often involves asking several human raters to judge …

Measuring divergent thinking originality with human raters and text-mining models: A psychometric comparison of methods.

D Dumas, P Organisciak, M Doherty - Psychology of aesthetics …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Within creativity research, interest and capability in utilizing text-mining models to quantify
the Originality of participant responses to Divergent Thinking tasks has risen sharply over …

Assessment of creativity

JA Plucker, MC Makel, M Qian - The Cambridge handbook of …, 2010 - books.google.com
Nearly 40 years ago, Torrance (1970) lamented that “Children are so accustomed to the one
correct or best answer that they may be reluctant to think of other possibilities or to build up a …

Applying automated originality scoring to the verbal form of Torrance tests of creative thinking

S Acar, K Berthiaume, K Grajzel… - Gifted Child …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, we applied different text-mining methods to the originality scoring of the
Unusual Uses Test (UUT) and Just Suppose Test (JST) from the Torrance Tests of Creative …

Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.

JD Patterson, HM Merseal, DR Johnson… - … , Creativity, and the …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of
responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual …

A MAD method to assess idea novelty: Improving validity of automatic scoring using maximum associative distance (MAD).

Y Yu, RE Beaty, B Forthmann, M Beeman… - … , creativity, and the …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Creativity research often relies on human raters to judge the novelty of participants'
responses on open-ended tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). Albeit useful …

The psychology of professional and student actors: Creativity, personality, and motivation

D Dumas, M Doherty, P Organisciak - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
As a profession, acting is marked by a high-level of economic and social riskiness
concomitantly with the possibility for artistic satisfaction and/or public admiration. Current …

The impact of physical activity intervention on creativity: Role of flexibility vs persistence pathways

A Bollimbala, PS James, S Ganguli - Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2023 - Elsevier
Since creativity is at the root of innovation, researchers have shown immense interest in
understanding what stimulates creativity and accordingly design interventions to enhance …

The zone of proximal creativity: What dynamic assessment of divergent thinking reveals about students' latent class membership

DG Dumas, Y Dong, M Leveling - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Divergent Thinking is a domain-general mental attribute closely associated with creativity
that can be quantified through the use of text-mining algorithms. Past research has shown …