Creative innovation or crazy irrelevance? The contribution of group norms and social identity to creative behavior

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 410-416

  Adarves Yorno, Inmaculada ^a   Postmes, Tom ^a   Haslam, S Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Group behavior; Norms; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947729124     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2006.02.013     Document Type: Article

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