Researching Imaginative Play and Adult Consciousness: Implications for Daily and Literary Creativity

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 190-199

  Singer, Jerome L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

consciousness research; daydreaming; imaginative play; literary and daily creativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149086032     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016507     Document Type: Article

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