Predicting interest in and attitudes toward science from personality and need for cognition

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 771-775

  Feist, Gregory J ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Need for cognition; Personality; Psychology of science; Scientific interest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858157955     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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