Being liked is more than having a good personality: The role of matching

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 579-585

  Tenney, Elizabeth R ^a   Turkheimer, Eric ^a   Oltmanns, Thomas F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Likeability; Peer relations; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349129684     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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