Psychological profiles of professional actors

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 375-383

  Nettle, Daniel ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actors; Empathizing; Performing arts; Personality; Systemizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344459449     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.07.008     Document Type: Article

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