Personality, emotionality, and risk prediction

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 127-135

  Borkenau, Peter ^a   Mauer, Nadine ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Negative emotionality; Optimistic bias; Positive emotionality; Prediction bias; Risk estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447275157     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001.27.3.127     Document Type: Article

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