Implicit theories of creativity in schoolchildren an exploratory study

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 4732-4736

  Pizzingrilli, Paola ^a   Antonietti, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Creativity; implicit theories; scholastic context

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957713900     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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