Tools, toys, truisms, and theories: Some thoughts on the creative cycle of theory formation

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-131

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 3042766317     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0802_5     Document Type: Review

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