“…Subjects ranging from potentially creative college stu-425 Downloaded by [University of Leeds] at 17:04 05 July 2015 dents to Nobel laureates in science were tested or exposed to ex perimental manipulations, and intergroup and intragroup control comparisons were made. More than 1,000 persons have been sub jects in these experiments, and results have supported interview findings and confirmed hypotheses regarding specific creative processes (Rothenberg, 1973a(Rothenberg, , 1973b(Rothenberg, , 1982(Rothenberg, , 1983b(Rothenberg, , 1986bRothenberg and Burkhardt, 1984;Sobel, 1980, 1981;Sobel and Rothenberg, 1980).…”