Crossing disciplinary boundaries: Applying financial portfolio theory to model the organization of the self-concept

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 346-373

  Chandra, Siddharth ^a   Shadel, William G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Finance; Self concept; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947509849     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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