Philosophy:Divergent Association Test (DAT)

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The Divergent Association Task (DAT), published[1] in July 2021, is a psychological test designed to measure a person's creativity. The task involves naming ten terms that differ as much as possible from each other. Here, the difference between two terms is understood in the semantic sense and is calculated by a special algorithm.[2][3] The test specifically measures a component of creativity called divergent thinking, which is the ability to find different solutions to open-ended problems.[4]

There is an online version of the task[5] created by the authors who developed the DAT (Jay A. Olson, Johnny Nahas, Denis Chmoulevitch, Simon J. Cropper, Margaret E. Webb).

References

  1. Naming unrelated words predicts creativity. Jay A. Olson, Johnny Nahas, Denis Chmoulevitch, Simon J. Cropper, Margaret E. Webb: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences June 2021, 118 (25) e2022340118; doi:10.1073/pnas.2022340118, https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2022340118
  2. Beketayev K., Runco M.A., Scoring Divergent Thinking Tests by Computer With a Semantics-Based Algorithm.'’ Eur. J. Psychol. 2016;12(2):210-220. Published 2016 May 31. doi:10.5964/ejop.v12i2.1127
  3. GloVe: Global vectors for word representation. J. Pennington, R. Socher, C. D. Manning, in Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA 2014), pp. 1532–1543.
  4. https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/health/words-creativity-test-scn-wellness/index.html
  5. Online DAT