Spontaneous eye blink rates vary according to individual differences in generalized control perception

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 721-735

  Declerck, Carolyn H ^a   De Brabander, Bert ^a   Boone, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME;

ADULT; BLINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749064380     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.102.3.721-735     Document Type: Article

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