Personality: Bridging the literatures from human psychology and behavioural ecology

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1560, 2010, Pages 4043-4050

  Nettle, Daniel ^a   Penke, Lars ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural ecology; Behavioural reaction norms; Five factor model; Personality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION NORM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 78650612703     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0061     Document Type: Review

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