Differential effects of cognitive inhibition and intelligence on creativity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 480-485

  Benedek, Mathias ^a   Franz, Fabiola ^a   Heene, Moritz ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Creativity; Inhibition; Intelligence; Random sequence generation; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862304615     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.014     Document Type: Article

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