Personality traits and group-based information behaviour: An exploratory study

Information Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Hyldegård, Jette ^a  

^a ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

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