Creative Productivity: A Predictive and Explanatory Model of Career Trajectories and Landmarks

Psychological Review

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 66-89

  Simonton, Dean Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.104.1.66     Document Type: Article

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