Schizotypy and creativity as effects of reduced cognitive inhibition

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 263-276

  Green, Melissa J ^a   Williams, Leanne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive inhibition; Divergent thinking; Interference; Negative priming; Originality; Psychosis proneness; Schizotypy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141642537     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00238-4     Document Type: Article

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