On the validity of culture-level personality and stereotype scores

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 987-991

  McCrae, Robert R ^a,c   Terracciano, Antonio ^a   Realo, Anu ^b   Allik, Jüri ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive processes; Cross cultural research; Personality scales and inventories

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149030096     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.659     Document Type: Review

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