Comparisons of Creative styles and personality types between American and Taiwanese college students and the relationship between creative potential and personality types

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-112

  Cheng, Yiling ^a   Kim, Kyung Hee ^b   Hull, Michael F ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Cross culture; Keirsey Temperament Sorter II; Personality; Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955528606     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017430     Document Type: Article

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