Big Two Personality and Religiosity Across Cultures: Communals as Religious Conformists and Agentics as Religious Contrarians

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-30

  Gebauer, Jochen E ^a   Paulhus, Delroy L ^b   Neberich, Wiebke ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Affinitas GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

agency; assimilation; communion; culture; differentiation; religiosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870951911     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612442553     Document Type: Article

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