Creativity in the Wild: Improving Creative Reasoning through Immersion in Natural Settings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Atchley, Ruth Ann ^a   Strayer, David L ^b   Atchley, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVE REASONING; CREATIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGY; WILDERNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; WILDERNESS;

EID: 84871188333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051474     Document Type: Article

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