Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 696-700

  Slepian, Michael L ^a   Weisbuch, Max ^a   Rutchick, Abraham M ^b   Newman, Leonard S ^c   Ambady, Nalini ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Insight; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951621451     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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