Relationships between Personality Structure, Structure of Word Meaning, and Cognitive Ability: A Study of Cultural Mechanisms of Personality

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 723-735

  Toomela, Aaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COGNITION; CULTURE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0141942632     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.4.723     Document Type: Article

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