Tension, adaptability, and creativity

Affect, Creative Experience, and Psychological Adjustment

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 165-194

  Runco, Mark A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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