Divergent thinking and creative potential / edited by Mark A. Runco.

Part 1. Assessment of divergent thinking : 1. Measuring divergent thinking with ideational pools -- 2. Divergent thinking for originality and appropriateness -- 3. Time-on-task, intrinsic motivation, and divergent thinking -- 4. Actual ideational behavior -- 5. Experience, knowledge, and divergent thinking -- 6. Divergent thinking and problem generation -- Part 2. Development, family, and divergent thinking : 7. Divergent thinking and the social environment -- 8. Divergent thinking and parental personality -- 9. Divergent thinking, birth order, and age interval -- 10. Creative potential within families of alcoholics -- Part 3. Judgment, evaluative thinking, and divergent thinking : 11. Accuracy of judgments of originality on three divergent thinking tests -- 12. Children's judgments -- 13. Developmental trends in children's judgments -- 14. Judgments of parents and teachers -- 15. Inter- and intrapersonal judgments by college students -- 16. Idea evaluation and creative attitudes of managers -- Part 4. Enhancement of divergent thinking : 17. Realistic divergent thinking and problem finding and appropriateness -- 18. Explicit instrutions for creativity, originality, and appropriateness -- 19. Tactis and creiteria in explicit instructions for divergent thinking -- 20. Divergent thinking and training in organizations -- Part 5. Health, creativity, and divergent thinking : 21. Suicide and divergent thinking ideation -- 22. Stress, hassles, and divergent thinking -- Divergent thinking and insomnia -- Part 6. Conclusions : 24. Assumptions of divergent thinking.