Do people know how their personality has changed? Correlates of perceived and actual personality change in young adulthood

Journal of Personality

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 489-522

  Robins, Richard W ^a   Noftle, Erik E ^a   Trzesniewski, Kali H ^a   Roberts, Brent W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 15744391154     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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