Personality science and personal projects: Six impossible things before breakfast

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 39, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 4-21

  Little, Brian R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 11344262769     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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