Narcissism, vanity, personality and mating effort

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2105-2115

  Egan, Vincent ^a   McCorkindale, Cara ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beauty; Mating effort; Narcissism; Personality; Self enhancement; Vanity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548837209     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.06.034     Document Type: Article

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