Child's Play: Facilitating the Originality of Creative Output by a Priming Manipulation

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-65

  Zabelina, Darya L ^a   Robinson, Michael D ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

creativity; extraversion; originality; play; priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649203874     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015644     Document Type: Article

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