How universal is the big five? Testing the five-factor model of personality variation among forager-farmers in the Bolivian Amazon

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 354-370

  Gurven, Michael ^a   Rueden, Christopher von ^a   Massenkoff, Maxim ^a   Kaplan, Hillard ^b   Vie, Marino Lero ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Tsimane Health and Life History Project   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Big five; Five factor model (FFM); Indigenous; Personality; Tsimane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875107002     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030841     Document Type: Article

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