Domain-Generality Versus Domain-Specificity of Creativity

Knowledge and Space

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 25-38

  Sternberg, Robert J ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative Idea; Creative Thinking; Divergent Thinking; Human Intelligence; Reasoning Problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 85160810639     PISSN: 18779220     EISSN: 25430580     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9877-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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