Cognitive stimulation with convergent and divergent thinking exercises in brainwriting incubation, sequence priming, and group context

Small Group Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 466-498

  Coskun, Hamit ^a  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brainstorming; Convergent and divergent thinking; Incubation

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944480221     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496405276475     Document Type: Article

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