The structure of Turkish trait-descriptive adjectives

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 431-450

  Somer, Oya ^a   Goldberg, Lewis R ^b,c  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TURKEY; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0033090922     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.76.3.431     Document Type: Article

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