Listening, Watching, and Reading: The Structure and Correlates of Entertainment Preferences

Journal of Personality

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 223-258

  Rentfrow, Peter J ^a   Goldberg, Lewis R ^b   Zilca, Ran ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Signal Patterns ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; STATISTICS; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; READING; TELEVISION; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952635883     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00662.x     Document Type: Article

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