Development and validity of a Dutch version of the Remote Associates Task: An item-response theory approach

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 177-186

  Akbari Chermahini, Soghra ^a   Hickendorff, Marian ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Convergent thinking; Creativity; Divergent thinking; Dutch version; Intelligence; Remote Associates Task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866987894     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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