Emotional intensity: Some components and their relations to extraversion and neuroticism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 747-758

  McFatter, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

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EID: 0032091258     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00220-1     Document Type: Article

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