Intelligence and personality as predictors of divergent thinking: The role of general, fluid and crystallised intelligence

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-69

  Batey, Mark ^a   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^b   Furnham, Adrian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; Creativity; Crystallised intelligence; Divergent thinking; Fluid intelligence (gf); General knowledge; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 62049085678     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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