From observations of individual behaviour to social representations of personality: Developmental pathways, attribution biases, and limitations of questionnaire methods

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 647-667

  Uher, Jana ^a   Werner, Christina S ^b   Gosselt, Karlijn ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age differences; Anthropomorphic bias; Attribution bias; Behavioural Repertoire Environmental Situations Approach; Lexical approach; Macaque Personality Inventory for captive populations (MPIc); Personality assessment; Sex differences gender differences; Social representations; Social status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880831983     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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