The relation between specialty choice of psychology students and their interests, personality, and cognitive abilities

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 494-500

  Wicherts, Jelte M ^a   Vorst, Harrie C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

IQ; Prediction of academic performance; Psychology majors; Scientific practitioner interests; Vocational choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956265827     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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