Specific Mindfulness Skills Differentially Predict Creative Performance

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1092-1106

  Baas, Matthijs ^a   Nevicka, Barbara ^a   Ten Velden, Femke S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

creativity; flexibility; meditation; mindfulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906759197     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167214535813     Document Type: Article

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