Dark Personality in the Workplace: Introduction to the Special Issue

Applied Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-14

  Schyns, Birgit ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERSONALITY; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84947218536     PISSN: 0269994X     EISSN: 14640597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/APPS.12041     Document Type: Article

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