Are acquiescent and extreme response styles related to low intelligence and education?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1539-1550

  Meisenberg, Gerhard ^a   Williams, Amandy ^a  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Dominica)

Author keywords

Acquiescent response style; Education; Extreme response style; IQ; World values survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849146888     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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