The relations of gender and personality traits On different creativities: A dual-process theory account

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 112-123

  Lin, Wei Lun ^a   Hsu, Kung Yu ^b   Chen, Hsueh Chih ^c   Wang, Jenn Wu ^a  

^a FO GUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Divergent thinking; Gender; HEXACO; Insight problem solving; Personality trait

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873965372     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026241     Document Type: Article

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