In favor of the synthetic resolution to the person-situation debate

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 150-154

  Fleeson, William ^a   Noftle, Erik E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Interactionism; Person situation debate; Traits; Walter mischel

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049092438     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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