"Toward a Science of Personality Psychology": David McClelland's Development of Empirically Derived TAT Measures

History of Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 130-153

  Winter, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0040594701     PISSN: 10934510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1093-4510.1.2.130     Document Type: Article

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