We report the joint influence or creativity factors on mental imagery among 1361 university students of Fine Arts, Mathematics, and Geography and History. Creativity accounted for 1% of the variance in imagery among Fine Arts students, 4% among Mathematics students, 2% among Geography and History students, and 3% in the whole sample.
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