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Earlier research suggested a relationship between career orientation and perceptual stability. The present study was conducted to test the hypothesis that, regardless of specific academic discipline, individuals demonstrating relatively high rates of reversals to ambiguous geometric figures would perceive themselves as more creative, or more original, than individuals demonstrating low rates of reversals. Two groups of 30 subjects each, selected from 128 undergraduates on the basis of their demonstrated reversal rates, were tested in terms of their self-perceptions. As predicted, the high-reversal group saw itself as more creative and original, and as generally more responsive and optimistic than the low-reversal group.
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Bergum, J.E., Bergum, B.O. Self-perceived creativity and ambiguous figure reversal rates. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 14, 373–374 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329483
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