Innovation and stability within the dialogical self: The centrality of ambivalence

Culture and Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 116-126

  Ribeiro, António P ^a   Gonçalves, Miguel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ambivalence; Dialogical Self; Innovative moments; Mutual in feeding; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649249204     PISSN: 1354067X     EISSN: 14617056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X09353211     Document Type: Article

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