Implicit theories of creativity across cultures: Novelty and appropriateness in two product domains

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 286-302

  Paletz, Susannah B F ^a,b   Peng, Kaiping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Creativity; Culture; Implicit theories; Novelty

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149130325     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108315112     Document Type: Article

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