Sex differences in the Big Five personality factors: Testing an evolutionary hypothesis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 801-813

  Budaev, Sergey V ^a  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Dominance; Evolution; Five Factor model; Frequency dependent selection; Personality; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007469855     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00179-2     Document Type: Article

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