The Divergent Association Task measures verbal creativity in under 4 minutes.

It involves thinking of 10 unrelated words. People who are more creative tend to think of words with greater “distances” between them, showing more divergent thinking.

We recommend that you take the test before you learn more about it. You can also read a CNN article on the task or read our open-access manuscript in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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