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Chapter 20 - Genius, Creativity, and Leadership

A Half-Century Journey through Science, History, Mathematics, and Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2018

By
Dean Keith Simonton
Edited by
Robert J. Sternberg  and
James C. Kaufman
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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The Nature of Human Creativity , pp. 302 - 317
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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