Perfectionism and efficiency: Accuracy, response bias, and invested time in proof-reading performance

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1673-1678

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Eysenck, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Efficiency; Errors; Perfectionism; Performance; Signal detection analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349147288     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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