Doing justice to creative justifications: Creativity, Honesty-Humility, and (un)ethical justifications

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Doing justice to creative justifications : Creativity, Honesty-Humility, and (un)ethical justifications. / Ścigała, Karolina Aleksandra; Schild, Christoph; Zettler, Ingo.

I: Journal of Research in Personality, Bind 89, 104033, 12.2020.

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt

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Ścigała, KA, Schild, C & Zettler, I 2020, 'Doing justice to creative justifications: Creativity, Honesty-Humility, and (un)ethical justifications', Journal of Research in Personality, bind 89, 104033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104033

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Ścigała, K. A., Schild, C., & Zettler, I. (2020). Doing justice to creative justifications: Creativity, Honesty-Humility, and (un)ethical justifications. Journal of Research in Personality, 89, [104033]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104033

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Ścigała KA, Schild C, Zettler I. Doing justice to creative justifications: Creativity, Honesty-Humility, and (un)ethical justifications. Journal of Research in Personality. 2020 dec.;89. 104033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104033

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Ścigała, Karolina Aleksandra ; Schild, Christoph ; Zettler, Ingo. / Doing justice to creative justifications : Creativity, Honesty-Humility, and (un)ethical justifications. I: Journal of Research in Personality. 2020 ; Bind 89.

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