The creative person in science

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-43

  Grosul, Maya ^a,b   Feist, Gregory J ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GFK Custom Research North America   (United States)

Author keywords

Big five; Creativity; Openness to experience; Personality; Psychology of science; Psychoticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894471274     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034828     Document Type: Article

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