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Researchers who study creativity often concede that cultural norms and practices influence the development and expression of creativity.
Reproduced with permission from C. Mokros and M. Csikszentmihalyi, in A. Montouri & R. Purser (Eds.) Social Creativity, Vol. 1. Creskill, NJ, © 2000, Hampton Press.
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Mockros, C.A., Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). The Social Construction of Creative Lives. In: The Systems Model of Creativity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9085-7_9
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