Lessons from a Faraway land: The effect of spatial distance on creative cognition

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  2009

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  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

• Publication date

  2009-09-01

• Fields of study

  Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.JESP.2009.05.015
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