A New Taxonomy of Dutch Personality Traits Based on a Comprehensive and Unrestricted List of Descriptors

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 347-364

  De Raad, Boele ^a   Barelds, Dick P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

comprehensive list of descriptors; personality structure; trait taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NETHERLANDS; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY;

ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 39049149510     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.94.2.347     Document Type: Article

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