Birth cohort differences in the monitoring the future dataset and elsewhere: Further evidence for generation Me-commentary on Trzesniewski & Donnellan (2010)

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-88

  Twenge, Jean M ^a   Campbell, W Keith ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

birth cohort differences; culture; generations; individualism; measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952422009     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691609357015     Document Type: Article

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