Paradox lost: Unraveling the puzzle of simpatía

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 703-715

  Ramírez Esparza, Nairán ^a   Gosling, Samuel D ^a   Pennebaker, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreeableness; Bilinguals; Cross cultural; Hispanics; Personality; Self reports; Simpat a

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349127111     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108323786     Document Type: Article

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