Unintentional dogmatism when thinking big: How grand theories and interdisciplinary thinking can sometimes limit our vision

How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 157-170

  Baer, John ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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