The effects of individual cognitive ability and idea stimulation on idea-generation performance

Group Dynamics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-15

  Valacich, Joseph S ^a,d   Jung, J H ^b   Looney, Clayton A ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive ability; Idea generation; Stimuli quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEA GENERATION; IDEA STIMULATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 33646510883     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2699.10.1.1     Document Type: Article

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