The Generality of Personality Heritability: Big-Five Trait Heritability Predicts Response Time to Trait Items

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 209-214

  Ekehammar, Bo ^a   Akrami, Nazar ^b   Hedlund, Lars Erik ^b   Yoshimura, Kimio ^c   Ono, Yutaka ^c   Ando, Juko ^c   Yamagata, Shinji ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Big Five; Heritability; Personality; Response time

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957814258     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000029     Document Type: Article

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