Far-Out Thinking: Generating Solutions to Distant Analogies Promotes Relational Thinking

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 928-933

  Vendetti, Michael S ^a   Wu, Aaron ^b   Holyoak, Keith J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

analogical reasoning; creativity; relational transfer; semantic distance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CREATIVITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LITERATURE; SEMANTICS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CREATIVITY; HUMANS; METAPHOR; SEMANTICS; THINKING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898889976     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613518079     Document Type: Article

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