The Richness of Inner Experience: Relating Styles of Daydreaming to Creative Processes

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zedelius, Claire M ^a   Schooler, Jonathan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

creativity; daydreaming; imagination; insight; mind wandering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990248368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02063     Document Type: Article

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