Steps toward an evolutionary personality psychology: Individual differences in the social rank domain

Canadian Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-66

  Zuroff, David C ^a,c   Fournier, Marc A ^b   Patall, Erika A ^a   Leybman, Michelle J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dominance; Evolutionary; Leadership; Personality; Rank

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950282106     PISSN: 07085591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018472     Document Type: Article

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