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Item Facilitation of performance on a divergent measure of creativity: A closer look at instructions to "be creative"(1983) Evans, Ronald G.; Forbach, Gary B.Research has suggested that instructing subjects to "be creative" enhances performance on alternate uses creativity tasks. However, previous research has confounded the effect of instructions to "be creative" with the effects of guidelines defining response quality criteria. These factors were separated by providing one of four instructions to 132 college students: creativity (C/NG), creativity plus guidelines (C/G), guidelines only (S/G), or standard alternate uses instructions (S/NG) that do not mention creativity or provide guidelines. Results indicated that males performed best in the C/G condition and females did so in the C/NG condition; standard instructions were least beneficial in eliciting maximal creative performance. The role of instructions in improving valid assessment of creativity is discussed. Suggestions for further research on the observed sex differences in response to instructions are presented.Item The Remote Associates Test as a predictor of productivity in brainstorming groups(1981) Forbach, Gary B.; Evans, Ronald G.Two studies investigated the validity of the Remote Associates Test (RAT) in predicting productivity in brainstorming groups. In Study 1 groups of high and low RAT scorers discussed two problems relevant to social concerns (energy conservation, rape prevention). In Study 2 Alternate Uses and Consequences problems were discussed by groups composed of heterogeneous RAT scorers. In each study the RAT was significantly related to fluency, flexibility, and originality of ideas generated by group members, with these effects appearing consistently across problems. In addition, Study 2 indicated that the RAT relationships to creativity indices were independent of verbal intelligence. Preliminary data were also gathered regarding RAT relationships to idea generation while working individually and to the potential value of the Marlowe- Crowne Scale as a predictor of brainstorming productivity.