Behavioral activation links to creativity because of increased cognitive flexibility

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 72-80

  de Dreu, Carsten K W ^a   Nijstad, Bernard A ^b   Baas, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Creativity; Dual process models; Goals; Motivation; Personality; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959531847     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610381789     Document Type: Article

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