The ability of college art majors to recombine ideas in creative thinking

Abstract

Recombining of ideas in creative thinking according to 4 different plans was employed to compare the abilities of college art majors, professional artists, and unselected college students. For areas tested in this study, mean scores show that a statistically significant difference did not exist between professional artists and art majors, but that it did exist between both of these groups and the unselected group. Except in the field of art no consistent differences were found between the groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)