Mind full of ideas: A meta-analysis of the mindfulness-creativity link

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 22-26

  Lebuda, Izabela ^a   Zabelina, Darya L ^b   Karwowski, Maciej ^a  

^a THE MARIA GRZEGORZEWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Meditation; Meta analysis; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

CREATIVITY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MINDFULNESS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84956801593     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.09.040     Document Type: Article

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