TY - JOUR
AU - Waller, Niels G.
AB - Creativity, Heritability, Familiality: Which Word Does Not Belong? Niels G. Waller University of Calijornia, Davis Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., David T. Lykken, and Auke Tellegen University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Dawn M. Blacker University of California, Davis Eysenck surveys an impressive body of literature to though usually low) heritabilities for putative tests of support his heuristic and admittedly speculative theory creative thinking and ideational fluency. Nichols of creativity. In the target article, he contends, as others (1978), for example, reported average identical- and before him, that personality--and especially Eysenck- .SO in fraternal-twin intraclass correlations of .61 and ian Psychoticism-plays a cardinal role in the develop- his review of 10 studies of divergent thinking. Although ment and expression sf trait creativity and creative none of these studies was impressively large, in aggre- achievement. We agree with Eysenck that intelligence gate they indicate that approximately 22% of the vari- alone cannot account for creative eminence or normal- ation on this dimension is due to the influence of genes. range originality (see also Barron & Hamngton, 1981). Additional twin studies have examined the personality We also agree that, in the etiology of creativity, person- correlates of creativity, although studies reporting ality and cognitive 
TI - Creativity, Heritability, Familiarity: Which Word Does Not Belong?
JF - Psychological Inquiry
DO - 10.1207/s15327965pli0403_18
DA - 1993-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/creativity-heritability-familiarity-which-word-does-not-belong-7Xi8XEm8ul
SP - 235
EP - 237
VL - 4
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -