The article examines creativity as a process and creativity as a personality trait. The participants of the study were 108 people aged 30–50. The experiment procedure is designed to deploy decision-making in the task on a deed as a creative process consisting of successive stages. The study revealed that the level of maturity of deeds in creative subjects is higher than that of subjects with medium and low creativity. 

Key words: deed, decision-making, personality, creativity, creative process.

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