The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-60

  Sowden, Paul T ^a   Pringle, Andrew ^a   Gabora, Liane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytic thought; Associative thought; Creativity; Dual process model; Type 1 and 2 thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911986702     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2014.885464     Document Type: Article

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