Do tests of divergent thinking have an experiential bias?

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 144-148

  Runco, Mark A ^a   Acar, Selcuk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergent thinking; Experiential bias; Fluency; Originality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956269924     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018969     Document Type: Article

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