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9 - An Integrative Approach to the Creative Personality

Beyond the Big Five Paradigm

from Part I - Process and Structure of the Creative Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2017

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Guillaume Fürst  and
Todd Lubart
Edited by
Gregory J. Feist ,
Roni Reiter-Palmon  and
James C. Kaufman
Gregory J. Feist
Affiliation:
San José State University, California
Roni Reiter-Palmon
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska, Omaha
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Personality Research , pp. 140 - 164
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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