Personality and thinking style in different creative domains

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 149-160

  Haller, Chiara Simone ^a   Courvoisier, Delphine Sophie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complexity; Creativity; Personality; Thinking style

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956276186     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017084     Document Type: Article

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