Evaluating overinclusive thinking: Development and validation of the Categorical Overinclusive Thinking Task (COverTT)

IF 4.5 2区教育学 Q1 Social Sciences Thinking Skills and Creativity Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-08 DOI:10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101726

Paul V. DiStefano, John D. Patterson, Roger E. Beaty

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Overinclusive thinking, characterized by flexible category boundaries and broad associative networks, has been linked to creativity. However, overinclusive thinking has lacked rigorous psychometric evaluation grounded in the cognitive psychology of categorization. In this paper, we introduce the Categorical Overinclusive Thinking Task (COverTT) and evaluate its reliability and validity. Across three studies involving 749 participants, we explore the relationship between overinclusive thinking, creativity, openness, creative behaviors, intelligence, and schizotypy. Our findings demonstrate that the COverTT is a reliable tool for assessing overinclusive thinking. Furthermore, we find small but reliable correlations between the COverTT and openness/creative behaviors. To enable other researchers to readily use the COverTT for measuring overinclusive thinking, we provide open access to our data, code, and materials at OSF (https://osf.io/c3phq/).

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评估过度包容思维：范畴过度包容思维任务（COverTT）的开发与验证

以灵活的类别边界和广泛的联想网络为特征的过度包容思维与创造力有关。然而，过度包容思维缺乏严格的基于分类认知心理学的心理测量评估。本文介绍了范畴过度包容思维任务（COverTT），并对其信效度进行了评价。在涉及749名参与者的三项研究中，我们探讨了过度包容思维、创造力、开放性、创造性行为、智力和精神分裂之间的关系。我们的研究结果表明，COverTT是评估过度包容思维的可靠工具。此外，我们发现COverTT与开放性/创造性行为之间存在很小但可靠的相关性。为了使其他研究人员能够方便地使用COverTT来衡量过度包容的思维，我们在OSF （https://osf.io/c3phq/）上提供了对我们的数据、代码和材料的开放访问。

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Thinking Skills and Creativity EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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6.40

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16.20%

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172

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76 days

期刊介绍： Thinking Skills and Creativity is a new journal providing a peer-reviewed forum for communication and debate for the community of researchers interested in teaching for thinking and creativity. Papers may represent a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches and may relate to any age level in a diversity of settings: formal and informal, education and work-based.