Creative motivation: Creative achievement predicts cardiac autonomic markers of effort during divergent thinking

Biological Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-37

  Silvia, Paul J ^a   Beaty, Roger E ^a   Nusbaum, Emily C ^a   Eddington, Kari M ^a   Kwapil, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative achievement; Creativity; Divergent thinking; Effort; Motivational intensity theory; Pre ejection period; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRE; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905489824     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.07.010     Document Type: Article

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