The Big Questions of Personality Psychology: Defining Common Pursuits of the Discipline

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-26

  Mayer, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2190/IC.27.1.b     Document Type: Article

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