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Description: Dear Colleagues, The Journal of Intelligence plans a special issue on the analysis of a divergent thinking dataset. • The data are available right here! • The main data are available for three Alternate Uses Objects (i.e., garbage bag, paperclip, and rope) • The dataset includes many different scorings of the divergent thinking data such as variants of originality scorings (human ratings, statistical rarity, and semantic distance), as well as fluency and elaboration. • Data for each single response are also available. This includes ratings of single responses, as well as text-mining features obtained for single responses, for example. • Person-level covariates are also available (e.g., verbal fluency, typing speed, right-wing authoritarianism), but divergent thinking should always be part of the analysis performed. • For an example of how the data can be analyzed, see: Forthmann, B., & Doebler, P. (2022). Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000518 Forthmann, B., Holling, H., Çelik, P., Storme, M., & Lubart, T. (2017). Typing speed as a confounding variable and the measurement of quality in divergent thinking. Creativity Research Journal, 29(3), 257-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2017.1360059 Forthmann, B., Paek, S. H., Dumas, D., Barbot, B., & Holling, H. (2020). Scrutinizing the basis of originality in divergent thinking tests: On the measurement precision of response propensity estimates. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 90(3), 683-699. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12325 We welcome all manuscripts which contribute to an understanding of new analytical approaches for researchers interested in divergent thinking research, a new understanding of the data, and/or to the measurement of divergent thinking, whether related or not to the approaches used in the papers mentioned above. Any type of analysis qualifies on the condition that it is of a sufficiently high level of quality. Specifically, the analysis could be… • …simple or complex • …outdated (some approaches used in the past might still be useful while other “old” methods of data analysis were simply overlooked) or modern (i.e., the newest approaches taken from the methods literature) • …frequentist or Bayesian • …psychometric (classical test theory, item response theory, or network psychometrics) • …focused on prediction The deadline for submission is 31st of July 2025. Submitted manuscripts will be subjected to the regular review process. Dr. Boris Forthmann Guest Editor Dr. Nils Myszkowski Guest Editor