Orientations and motivations: Are you a "people person," a "thing person," or both?

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 465-477

  Graziano, William G ^a   Habashi, Meara M ^b   Evangelou, Demetra ^c   Ngambeki, Ida ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Person thing orientation; Sex differences; STEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869096075     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9273-2     Document Type: Article

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