The creative spark of death: The effects of mortality salience and personal need for structure on creativity

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 478-482

  Routledge, Clay ^a   Juhl, Jacob ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Personal need for structure; Terror management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869094666     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9274-1     Document Type: Article

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