Dissimilarity in creative categorization

Journal of Creative Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 71-83

  Ranjan, Apara ^a   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Categorization; Creativity; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956931653     PISSN: 00220175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2162-6057.2010.tb01326.x     Document Type: Article

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