Who fears being laughed at? The location of gelotophobia in the Eysenckian PEN-model of personality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 627-630

  Ruch, Willibald ^a   Proyer, René T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extraversion; Gelotophobia; Laughter; Neuroticism; PEN model; Psychoticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 59749104510     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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