Personality and creativity: The dual pathway to creativity model and a research agenda

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 732-748

  Baas, Matthijs ^a   Roskes, Marieke ^b   Sligte, Daniel ^a   Nijstad, Bernard A ^c   De Dreu, Carsten K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84885120532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12062     Document Type: Article

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