Implicit theories about personality and intelligence and their relationship to actual personality and intelligence

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 939-951

  Spinath, Birgit ^a   Spinath, Frank M ^b   Riemann, Rainer ^c   Angleitner, Alois ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Five Factor Model; Implicit theories; Individual differences; Intelligence; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041841520     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00310-0     Document Type: Article

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