Person and Thing Orientations: Psychological Correlates and Predictive Utility

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 116-123

  Woodcock, Anna ^a   Graziano, William G ^a   Branch, Sara E ^a   Habashi, Meara M ^b   Ngambeki, Ida ^a   Evangelou, Demetra ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

interests; person and thing orientations; personality; sex differences; STEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870866150     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612444320     Document Type: Review

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