Is schizotypy taxonic? Response to Beauchaine, Lenzenweger, and Waller

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1663-1672

  Rawlings, David ^a   Williams, Ben ^b   Haslam, Nick ^a   Claridge, Gordon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c Department of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dimensionality; Psychosis proneness; Schizotypy; Taxometric analysis; Taxon

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549098600     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.021     Document Type: Article

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