The big none: No evidence for a general factor of personality in chimpanzees, orangutans, or rhesus macaques

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 393-397

  Weiss, Alexander ^a   Adams, Mark James ^a   Johnson, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Confirmatory factor analysis; Evolution; Exploratory factor analysis; General factor of personality; Higher order factors; Orangutans; Personality; Phylogeny; Rhesus macaques

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957929275     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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