Extraversion and Arousal Procrastination: Waiting for the Kicks

Current Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-382

  Freeman, Erin K ^a   Cox Fuenzalida, Luz Eugenia ^b   Stoltenberg, Ilea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal procrastination; Biologically based; Extraversion; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955212993     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: 19364733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-011-9123-0     Document Type: Article

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