ABSTRACT

The Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) was established on the Berkeley campus of the University of California in 1949 with the specific purpose of thinking about and investigating higher things. There are four major facets of creativity: the creative product, the creative process, the creative person and the creative situation. The creative product is a domain of research that has been largely neglected. The discussion of the creative process thus far has taken no cognizance of the possibility that there may be different kinds of creative process. In general and across samples the more creative persons were seen as ingenious, imaginative, courageous, original, artistic, clear-thinking, insightful, interests wide, versatile, intelligent, individualistic, preoccupied, complicated. In considering the creative situation, the problem is to discover those characteristics of the life circumstances and the social and cultural and work milieu which facilitate or inhibit the appearance of creative thought and action.