How Multiple Social Identities Are Related to Creativity

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 188-203

  Steffens, Niklas K ^a   Gocłowska, Małgorzata A ^b,c   Cruwys, Tegan ^a   Galinsky, Adam D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

creativity; fluency; identity; self categorization; social identity

Indexed keywords

CREATIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOMENCLATURE; SOCIAL STATUS; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STUDENTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955459958     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167215619875     Document Type: Article

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