Pleasantness of creative tasks and creative performance

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-56

  Zenasni, Franck ^a   Lubart, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Creativity; Divergent thinking; Emotion; Perceived pleasantness; Story writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79451469769     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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