The role of scripts in personal consistency and individual differences

Journal of Personality

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 187-218

  Demorest, Amy ^a   Popovska, Ana ^a   Dabova, Milena ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; RECALL; STEREOTYPY; STUDENT;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856169104     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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