A note on the remote associates test, United States culture, and creativity

Abstract

An industrial validation of a measure of creative potential, the Remote Associates Test (RAT), found the correlation between RAT scores and supervisory ratings of creativity for 31 physicists to be +.13, with 6 of the 10 high-rated scientists having very low RAT scores. These scientists do not speak English as their native language although their linguistic fluency was no different from that of the other scientists. The proportion of nonEnglish-speaking scientists in this sample is similar to that reported for eminent mathematicians; the RAT may be limited as a measure of creative potential in this occupational group. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)