Collaborative fixation: Effects of others' ideas on brainstorming

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 359-371

  Kohn, Nicholas W ^a   Smith, Steven M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAINSTORMING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 79956187981     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1699     Document Type: Article

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