Sources of cognitive exploration: Genetic variation in the prefrontal dopamine system predicts Openness/Intellect

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 364-371

  DeYoung, Colin G ^a   Cicchetti, Dante ^a   Rogosch, Fred A ^b   Gray, Jeremy R ^c   Eastman, Maria ^c   Grigorenko, Elena L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

COMT; Dopamine; DRD4; Genetics; Intellect; Openness to Experience; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957956349     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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