Divergent Thinking as an Indicator of Creative Potential

By Mark A. Runco, Selcuk Acar. 2012

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering

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Convergent Thinking Moderates the Relationship between Divergent Thinking and Scientific Creativity (2019, background): “In fact, divergent thinking is a manifestation of creative potential (Runco & Acar, 2012), and convergent thinking is a powerful ability to transform divergent thinking into creative output (Basadur, 1994).”
Investigating the structure of semantic networks in low and high creative persons (2014, background): “Divergent thinking refers to an ideational process which involves generating a broad range of solutions or ideas to a given stimuli and is considered the hallmark of creative ability (Runco and Acar, 2012; Lee and Therriault, 2013).”
Approaches to Measuring Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review (2017, neutral): “…of an individual’s entire creativity (Baer, 2011, 2016; Batey & Furnham, 2006; Fishkin & Johnson, 1998; Kaufman et al., 2007; Kaufman et al., 2012; Kim, 2006a; Lubart & Guignard, 2004; Runco, 1993, 2008; Runco & Acar, 2012; Torrance & Haensly, 2003; Treffinger et al., 1971; Zeng et al., 2011).”
Structure and flexibility: Investigating the relation between the structure of the mental lexicon, fluid intelligence, and creative achievement. (2016, result): “Future research should replicate the results of the present study with other measures of creativity, such as divergent thinking tasks or the remote association test (Mednick, 1962; Runco & Acar, 2012).”
Awe Enhances Creative Thinking: An Experimental Study (2018, background): “It is one of the main layers of creative performance and personal achievement (Runco, Millar, Acar, & Cramond, 2010), and one of the core cognitive processes of creativity (Runco & Acar, 2012; Torrance, 1974).”
Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity (2018, background): “Considerable research has focused on characterizing variation in creative thinking ability, often employing assessments of divergent thinking, which measure people’s ability to generate solutions to open-ended problems, such as inventing new uses for objects (2).”
How semantic memory structure and intelligence contribute to creative thought: a network science approach (2017, methodology): “Creative ability was assessed with measures of divergent thinking ability (Runco & Acar, 2012).”
Technology-based assessment of creativity in educational context: the case of divergent thinking and its relation to mathematical achievement (2015, background): “Originality refers to the ability to produce unique, nusual ideas, and it is usually measured by the statistical rarity of the responses in a given sample (e.g., answers given by ess than 1 or 5% of the participants; for examples of different scoring techniques, see Runco & Acar, 2012).”
A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological (2020, background): “Moreover, key processes commonly assumed to substantiate creative processes, such as divergent thinking (Runco & Acar, 2012) and conceptual combination (Ward, 2001), can be translated as generating perspectives (and thus discovering also new affordances) and combining two or more perspectives,…”