Directing idea generation using brainstorming with specific novelty goals

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-143

  Litchfield, Robert C ^a   Fan, Jinyan ^b   Brown, Vincent R ^c  

^a WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstorming; Creativity; Goal commitment; Goals; Idea generation; Novelty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955880760     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9203-3     Document Type: Article

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