Situation Trait Relevance, Trait Expression, and Cross-Situational Consistency: Testing a Principle of Trait Activation

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 397-423

  Tett, Robert P ^a   Guterman, Hal A ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross situational consistency; Person situation interactions; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000885144     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jrpe.2000.2292     Document Type: Article

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