Evidence for the Big Five personality trait structure in memory organization

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1465-1473

  Edwards, John A ^a   Collins, Emily M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Person memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649126915     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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