This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Lateral thinking" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Maltese psychologist Edward de Bono (pictured in 2009) introduced the term "lateral
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