To assess temperamental differences between high and low scorers on divergent thinking tasks, 178 undergraduate university students were administered Buss and Plomin's Temperament Survey and Torrance's Incomplete Figures and Unusual User Tests. In comparisons with low scorers, verbal elaborators were more emotional; figural elaborators were more active; and verbally flexible and original persons were less sociable and more impulsive. Differences in temperament according to style of divergent thinking suggest field specificity of temperaments among creative people.
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