Cultural difference in stereotype perceptions and performances in nonverbal deductive reasoning and creativity

Journal of Creative Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-59

  Wong, Regine ^a   Niu, Weihua ^a  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Cross cultural difference; Deductive reasoning; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880224892     PISSN: 00220175     EISSN: 21626057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jocb.22     Document Type: Article

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