Effects of personality and threat of evaluation on divergent and convergent thinking

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1095-1101

  Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a   Reichenbacher, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Divergent thinking; Intellectual competence; Negative affect; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 44149096012     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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