Power increases situated creativity

Social Influence

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 294-311

  Gervais, Sarah J ^a   Guinote, Ana ^b   Allen, Jill ^a   Slabu, Letitia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Global processing; Goals; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883550668     PISSN: 15534510     EISSN: 15534529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2012.742457     Document Type: Article

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