Mood and personality predict improvement in creativity due to meditation training

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 217-221

  Ding, Xiaoqian ^a,b   Tang, Yi Yuan ^c,d   Deng, Yuqin ^b   Tang, Rongxiang ^e   Posner, Michael I ^d  

^a DALIAN NATIONALITIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative performance; Integrative body mind training; Inter individual differences; Mood; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922421755     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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