Distributed Creativity: How Collective Creations Emerge From Collaboration

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-92

  Sawyer, R Keith ^a   DeZutter, Stacy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MILLSAPS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; distributed cognition; group creativity; improvisation; performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549134283     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013282     Document Type: Article

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