Article Discussion: Accentuate the Positive in Assessment

Abstract

This article discusses the 5 previous articles (Fowler, this issue; Handler, this issue; King & Pope, this issue; Potash, this issue; Strassle, McKee, & Plant, this issue) in reference to creativity assessment, emphasizing the need to study children's play. There is a need for validity studies in the optimism paradigm described for the Thematic Apperception Test (Murray, 1938). I also question the wisdom of omitting hostile responses in the paradigm used to assess playfulness in the Rorschach.