Creativity and bipolar diathesis: Common behavioural and cognitive components

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 741-762

  Shapiro, Pamela J ^a   Weisberg, Robert W ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0141858562     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026999399379069     Document Type: Article

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