Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 959-971

  Gocłowska, Małgorzata A ^a   Baas, Matthijs ^a   Crisp, Richard J ^b   de Dreu, Carsten K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

information processing; innovation; motivation; social diversity; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904201853     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167214533132     Document Type: Article

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