Creativity, Heritability, Familiarity: Which Word Does Not Belong?
Psychological InquiryPublished 1 July 1993
Thomas J. Bouchard, David T. Lykken, Auke Tellegen, Dawn M. Blacker, Niels G. Waller
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(1993). Creativity, Heritability, Familiarity: Which Word Does Not Belong? Psychological Inquiry: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 235-237.
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