Creativity, identity, and representation: Towards a socio-cultural theory of creative identity

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-21

  Glǎveanu, Vlad Petre ^a   Tanggaard, Lene ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Creativity; Denied creative identity; Identity; Problematic creative identity; Promoted creative identity; Social representations; Socio cultural psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940276234     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2014.02.002     Document Type: Article

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