Season of birth effect on personality in a general population

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 365, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 120-123

  Tochigi, Mamoru ^a   Marumo, Kohei ^a   Hibino, Hiroyuki ^a   Otowa, Takeshi ^a   Kato, Chieko ^a   Marui, Tetsuya ^a   Araki, Tsuyoshi ^a   Otani, Toshiyuki ^a   Umekage, Tadashi ^a,b   Kato, Nobumasa ^a   Sasaki, Tsukasa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agreeableness; NEO PI R; Personality; Season of birth; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARTURITION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SEASONS;

EID: 3042734530     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.04.064     Document Type: Article

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