Knowing your personality is knowing its nature: The role of information accuracy of peer assessments for heritability estimates of temperamental and personality traits

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 387-392

  Kandler, Christian ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Heritability; Peer assessments; Personality; Rater bias; Temperament; Twin study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862328759     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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