Conceptual Versus Experimental Creativity: Which Works Best on Convergent and Divergent Thinking Tasks?

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 131-138

  Nielsen, Bayard D ^a   Pickett, Cynthia L ^a   Simonton, Dean K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual creative methods; convergent task; creativity; divergent task; experimental creative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949850989     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1931-3896.2.3.131     Document Type: Article

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