Mary Meeker, a psychologist who developed a widely used program to test and strengthen the intellectual abilities of children, died of breast cancer Oct. 4 in Vida, Ore. She was 82. Meeker’s program ...

Although studying creativity is considered a legitimate scientific discipline nowadays, it is still a very young one. In the early 1970s, a psychologist named J. P. Guilford was one of the first ...

In 1956 psychologist J. P. Guilford coined the term “divergent thinking” to describe a thought process that generates out-of-the-box ideas and innovations. It's used by individuals who create ...

Below, tied with four others for twelfth, came Jess Sweetser, Yale and Siwanoy, titleholder, 157. Tied with him, Maxwell R. Marston, Philadelphia. J. P. Guilford ...