Verbal fluency and creativity: General and specific contributions of broad retrieval ability (Gr) factors to divergent thinking

Intelligence

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 328-340

  Silvia, Paul J ^a   Beaty, Roger E ^a   Nusbaum, Emily C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad retrieval ability; Creativity; Divergent thinking; Intelligence; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879431418     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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