The Constraining Effects of Initial Ideas

Group Creativity: Innovation through Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Smith, Steven M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive processesc; Creative process; Creative thinking; Memory blocks; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919964500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195147308.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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