Creativity, personality and word association responses: Associative behaviour in forty supposedly creative persons

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 933-942

  Merten, Thomas ^a,b   Fischer, Ines ^b  

^a VIVANTES KLINIKUM IM FRIEDRICHSHAIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0033228490     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00042-2     Document Type: Article

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