A pilot study of a Cartoons Test which required the creation of humorous captions showed an interesting pattern of significant intercorrelations with several measures of creativity. Although work remains to be done to improve the scoring procedures and reliability of the Cartoons Test, these results suggested that the study of humor can be a useful approach to creativity research.
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