The future of person-situation integration in the interface between traits and goals: A bottom-up framework

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-178

  Heller, Daniel ^a   Perunovic, Wei Qi Elaine ^b   Reichman, Daniel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottom up model; Contextualized personality; Personality states; Social roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049108073     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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