[Fusion of opposite visual images by high, medium and low creative groups under response free and response restricted...

Two sets each of High, Medium, and Low Creative Groups (HCG, MCG and LCG), N=12 each, were selected on the basis of JARAT (RAT Revised In Japanese) scores from 364 male college students. One set was asked to entitle each of six pairs of superimposed slide photographs in order to assess mental fusion of visual images under Response Free Situation (RFS), and the other set under Response Restricted Situation (RRS). Under RFS, HCG showed significantly stronger propensity for fusing images that had opposite impression than the other groups. MCG and LCG responded to a few images more promptly, while HCG elaborated their responses more than the rest under both response conditions, and especially under RRS in which each group was encouraged to produce excellent ones. Thus, it was suggested that HCG might process opposites more flexibly and reversibly in both remote associative thinking and in homospatial imagery synthesizing.