Individual differences in need for cognition and decision-making competence among leaders

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 274-278

  Carnevale, Jessica J ^a   Inbar, Yoel ^b   Lerner, Jennifer S ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Leadership; Need for cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958126302     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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