Using Common Psychological Terms to Describe Other People: From Lexical Hypothesis to Polysemous Conception

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-334

  Mollaret, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

evaluation; lexical hypothesis; personality; polysemy; trait psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349312647     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354309104157     Document Type: Article

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