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Averill, J. R., & Thomas-Knowles, C. (1991). Emotional creativity. In T. Strongman (Ed.) (1991), International review of studies on emotion (Vol. 1, pp. 269-299). London: Wiley.


Averill, J. R. (1999). Individual differences in emotional creativity: Structure and correlates. Journal of Personality, 67, 331-371.

Averill, J. R. (2001). The rhetoric of emotion, with a note on what makes great literature great. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 19, 5-26.

Averill, J. R., Chon, K. K., & Haan, D. W. (2001). Emotions and creativity, East and West. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 4, 165-183.

Averill, J. R. (2002). Emotional creativity: Toward “spiritualizing the passions.” In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology (pp. 172-185). New York: Oxford University Press.

Averill, J. R. (2004). A tale of two snarks: Emotional intelligence and emotional creativity compared. Psychological Inquiry, 15, 228-233.

Averill, J. R. (2005). Emotions as mediators and as products of creative activity. In J. Kaufman & J. Baer (Eds.), Creativity across domains: Faces of the muse (pp. 225-243). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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