Using Constraints to Create Novelty: A Case Study

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 174-180

  Stokes, Patricia D ^a  

^a Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

constraints; novelty; problem solving; variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549147184     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014970     Document Type: Article

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