Examples of creative problem solving are drawn from the negotiations by delega tions from Egypt, Israel, and the United States at Camp David in 1978. Bales's "Field Diagrams" are used to show the relationships of the participants, in an example of social-emotional creativity, and of the images, in an example of task creativity, in a three dimensional social-psychological space (forward-backward, positive-negative, and upward-downward). The five levels of creativity identified by Taylor are used to rate decisions, ranging from those at the lowest level that bypass the issues to those at the highest level that introduce a new definition of the situation.
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