The relationship between intelligence and creativity: New support for the threshold hypothesis by means of empirical breakpoint detection

Intelligence

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 212-221

  Jauk, Emanuel ^a   Benedek, Mathias ^a   Dunst, Beate ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breakpoint detection; Creativity; Intelligence; Segmented regression; Threshold hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877158008     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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