Abstract
Two predictions about family patterns associated with creativity were made and supported, with 75 Ss from three randomly selected undergraduate classes: (a) college students having spent most of their lives with both parents will be more creative than students spending most of their life with one or none and (b) living at home while attending college will be negatively associated with creativity. Other findings about family patterns and creativity are also presented. In addition, data are presented suggesting the value of the regular as opposed to a more liberal scoring of the Unusual Uses test; and, the superiority of using Ss' three most preferred shapes as an indicator of complexity preference rather than using a complexity score based on most minus least preferred shapes. A second study with 63 Ss supported some of the findings in Study I and suggested that the context in which Ss were tested did not influence the correlations between brick-use fluency and preference for complexity.
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