Creative Hypothesis Generating in Psychology: Some Useful Heuristics

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 1-30

  McGuire, William J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Heuristics; Methodology; Theory construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031501773     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.1     Document Type: Article

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