Personality and culture: Demarcating between the common and the unique

Journal of Personality

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1033-1060

  Poortinga, Ype H ^a   Van Hemert, Dianne A ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMETRY;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 0035656936     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6494.696174     Document Type: Article

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