Beliefs about personality change and continuity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1621-1631

  Haslam, Nick ^a   Bastian, Brock ^a   Fox, Christopher ^a,b   Whelan, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lay theories; Stability; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947309399     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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