Rethinking the Extraverted Sales Ideal: The Ambivert Advantage

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1024-1030

  Grant, Adam M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

personality; personnel selection; social influences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878788501     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612463706     Document Type: Article

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