Problem Identification and Construction: What Do We Know, What Is the Future?

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-47

  Reiter Palmon, Roni ^a   Robinson, Erika J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive processes; creativity; problem construction; problem identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549143162     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014629     Document Type: Article

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