Intelligence and selective attrition in a nationally representative and longitudinal sample of Americans

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 157-161

  Beaver, Kevin M ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Attrition; Intelligence; Longitudinal; Response rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876794686     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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