Age as a Factor in Judgments of Wisdom and Creativity

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-46

  Knight, Alison J ^a   Parr, Wendy V ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

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