I guess you're just not my type

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 105-117

  Altmann, Tobias ^a   Sierau, Susan ^b   Roth, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Five; couples; personality types; relationship satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878879382     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: 21512299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000105     Document Type: Article

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