Creativity and personality in classical, jazz and folk musicians

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 117-121

  Benedek, Mathias ^a   Borovnjak, Barbara ^b   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a   Kruse Weber, Silke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz   (Austria)

Author keywords

Creativity; Divergent thinking; Music genre; Music learning; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894365895     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.064     Document Type: Article

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