Explaining Premature Mortality Across Fields of Creative Endeavor

Journal of Personality

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 805-833

  Cassandro, Vincent J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; LONGEVITY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; CREATIVENESS; FEMALE; HUMANITIES; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE;

EID: 0032185072     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6494.00033     Document Type: Article

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