Comparison of social judgments of creativity and intelligence

Abstract

Investigated social judgment of creativity and intelligence by having 24 college students give trait ratings for stimulus profiles of actual art students based on (a) abilities information alone, (b) personality information alone, (c) biographical information alone, and (d) the total set of all 3 types of cue information. Regression equations differed depending upon whether intelligence or creativity judgments were being predicted. For all types of information, there was a significant amount of variation unique to creativity judgments which could not be accounted for by intelligence judgments, and vice versa. However, the proportion of variation unique to each type of trait judgment was smallest when Ss had only abilities information available and was approximately 4 times larger when judgments were based on the total set of 3 types of cue information. Implications for the study of creativity are discussed. (21 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1975 American Psychological Association.