Solitary minds and social capital: Latent inhibition, general intellectual functions and social network size predict creative achievements

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 215-221

  Kéri, Szabolcs ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b National Psychiatry Center   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Creativity; IQ; Latent inhibition; Personality; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958753307     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022000     Document Type: Article

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