Gender differences in personality across the ten aspects of the Big Five

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Weisberg, Yanna J ^a   De Young, Colin G ^b   Hirsh, Jacob B ^c  

^a LINFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big Five; Gender differences; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855410437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00178     Document Type: Article

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