Associative abilities underlying creativity

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-281

  Benedek, Mathias ^a   Könen, Tanja ^b   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creativity; Divergent thinking; Intelligence; Word association

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874013934     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027059     Document Type: Article

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