The road not taken: Creative solutions require avoidance of high-frequency responses

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 288-294

  Gupta, Nitin ^a   Jang, Yoonhee ^a   Mednick, Sara C ^b   Huber, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

associative processes; creativity; individual differences; language; remote associates test; semantic memory; word association; word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858207513     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611429710     Document Type: Article

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