Moving Personality Beyond the Person-Situation Debate: The Challenge and the Opportunity of Within-Person Variability

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 83-87

  Fleeson, William ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Interactionism; Intraindividual variability; Person situation debate; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142848649     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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