Rewriting the language of creativity: The five A's framework

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-81

  Glǎveanu, Vlad Petre ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Creativity; Cultural psychology; Distributed cognition; Ecological psychology; The four P's

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881245916     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029528     Document Type: Article

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