Movement time differentiates extraverts from introverts

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 775-786

  Doucet, Cynthia ^a   Stelmack, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extravert; Introvert; Movement time; Reaction time; Stimulus response

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031281111     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00104-9     Document Type: Article

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