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Fifty undergraduates wrote associative poems, produced Draw-A-Story (DAS) comics using stimulus drawings, and completed self-report measures of the need to be different and innovation expectancies as well as the 16PF. The originality of the poems was scored based on variables such as use of unusual words. The originality of the DAS protocols was scored using variables such as unusual picture choices. Both creative works also were rated for creative merit by independent judges. The need to be different correlated with both approaches to evaluating both creative works. Innovation expectancies and certain 16PF scales, notably Factor I (“Sensitivity”) and Factor M (“Abstractedness” or “Imagination”) displayed similar, but weaker, patterns of correlation. Intelligence (16PF factor B) was also a noteworthy correlate of some aspects of creativity.

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Origins of Originality: Innovation Motivation and Intelligence in Poetry and Comics

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