Can Only Intelligent People Be Creative? A Meta-Analysis

By Kyung H Kim. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Identifying and Assessing Creativity as a Component of Giftedness (2012, background): “Creativity is typically both theoretically and empirically related to intelligence, but at a small (but significant) level; one recent meta-analysis found the average correlation to be r = .17 (Kim, 2005).”
The cognitive underpinnings of creative thought: A latent variable analysis exploring the roles of intelligence and working memory in three creative thinking processes (2013, methodology): “…when using traditional scoring procedures (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011) and oversimplifying the criteria for creativity to merely generating a large amount of different ideas to unrealistic situations (Barron & Harrington, 1981; Cattell, 1971; Kim, 2005, 2006; Simonton, 2000; Sternberg & Lubart, 1996).”
Creativity and Intelligence Revisited: A Latent Variable Analysis of Wallach and Kogan (1965) (2008, background): “Psychometric research generally finds modest relationships between creativity and intelligence—within the range of r ¼ .10 to .30—depending upon the nature of the creativity and intelligence tests and the range of intelligence in the sample (Kim, 2005; Sternberg & O’Hara, 1999).”
Is creativity without intelligence possible? A Necessary Condition Analysis (2016, methodology): “Thesemanifest correlations varied from nonsignificant −.02 to highly significant .35, with an average of r = .17, resembling the meta-analytical estimate (Kim, 2005).”
Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought (2012, background): “A recent meta-analysis of the relationship between intelligence and divergent thinking found an overall effect of r=.17 (Kim, 2005).”
The relationship between trait emotional intelligence and creativity across subject domains (2011, background): “Empirically, the correlation between DT and IQ is in the range of .20–.40, as has been shown in many studies and meta-analyses (Kim 2005).”
Personal factors of creativity: A second order meta-analysis (2015, background): “Empirically, in terms of cognitive capacity and creativity, it was found that the relation between IQ and creativity is linear (Kim, 2005).”
The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking - Figural or Verbal: Which One Should We Use? (2017, methodology): “Flexibility is measured by the variety of different types of ideas (see Kim [2006a] for more details). The TTCT-F consists of three activities of picture construction, picture completion and repeated figures of lines for Form A and of circles for Form B. The TTCT-F is comprised of five norm-referenc”
In Praise of Clark Kent: Creative Metacognition and the Importance of Teaching Kids When (Not) to Be Creative (2013, background): “A recent meta-analysis of 21 studies found a lower but still significant (r = 0.17) correlation (Kim, 2005).”
Intelligence and Creativity Are Pretty Similar After All (2015, methodology): “When Kim (2005) synthesized the large literature on creativity and intelligence using meta-analysis, she found a weighted average correlation of r=0.17 (95 % CI [0.16, 0.18]), which is modest at most.”
Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks. (2012, background): “Past meta-analyses ( Kim, 2005, 2008) and literature reviews ( Kaufman & Plucker, 2011; Kim, Cramond, & VanTassel-Baska, 2010) suggest that creativity and intelligence are modestly related.”
The Creativity Crisis: The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (2011, background): “Countries such as China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have modeled their educational systems after the American education system because of America’s previous success in encouraging creativity in children (Kim, 2005b).”