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High creative (HC) and less creative (LC) Ss, selected on the basis of the Remote Associates Test (RAT), gave word associations to abstract and concrete word stimuli. HC individuals produced more associations over a longer period of time than did LC Ss, but creativity level did not interact significantly either with type of word stimulus or with associative output across time. Concrete words elicited more associations, but associations evoked by abstract words were more evenly distributed across time. Creativity groups did not differ in degree of stereotypy of the associations produced.
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Desiderato, O., Sigal, S. Associative productivity as a function of creativity level and type of verbal stimulus. Psychon Sci 18, 357–358 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332398
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