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Part II - Creativity and Personality

Emotion, Motivation, and Psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2017

Gregory J. Feist
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San José State University, California
Roni Reiter-Palmon
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska, Omaha
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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