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Eisenman, Russell; Schussel, Nancy Robinson – J Consult Clin Psychol, 1970
Four hundred fifty college students were given three measures of creativity: (a) complexity-simplicity preference, (b) Personal Opinion Survey, and (c) an unusual uses test. The intercorrelation of the creativity measures ranged .45-.83 (p's is less than .001), and a striking birth-order effect was found: later-born males were significantly less…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Creativity, Family (Sociological Unit), Sex Differences
Peer reviewedGrossman, Jan Carl; Eisenman, Russell – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
This investigation was conducted to determine whether manipulation of authoritarian attitudes would have a consequent effect on creativity. The marked success in creativity change in all but the high-authoritarian males suggests that creativity and authoritarianism are part of a single underlying dimension called open-mindedness, closed-mindedness…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, College Freshmen, Creativity, Creativity Research
Peer reviewedEisenman, Russell – Developmental Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Creativity, Cross Sectional Studies, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedEisenman, Russell; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
Found that the greater the frequency of marijuana use the higher the scores on creativity and adventuresomeness and the lower the scores on authoritarianism. Males were more frequent users than females; Jews more frequent users than Protestants or Catholics. Internal sensation novelty seeking correlated with frequency of marijuana use. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Drug Use, Higher Education, Marihuana
Peer reviewedEisenman, Russell; Grove, Michael S. – Journal of Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Difficulty Level, Educational Research
