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17564227

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-6-13
pubmed:abstractText
The present cross-cultural study examined the relationship between deductive reasoning and creativity among college students (M age=20.4 yr., SD= .6) from Hong Kong (n=39) and the United States (n=38). Participants performed tasks designed to measure deductive reasoning, creative writing, and insight problem-solving, all in verbal form. No correlation was found between the performance for deductive reasoning and creativity as measured by creative writing. Insight problem-solving performance correlated significantly with that for both reasoning and creativity. Significant cultural differences favoring the American participants were only found on the creative writing and insight problem-solving tasks, both of which supposedly involve creative thinking. There seems to be cultural dependence for creativity but not for deductive reasoning which suggests a qualification of a strong cultural-relevance view positing pervasive cultural influences on human thinking processes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0033-2941
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
100
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
509-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Deductive reasoning and creativity: a cross-cultural study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Pace University, 41 Park Row, New York 10038, USA. wniu@pace.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't