Specifying Associations Between Conscientiousness and Executive Functioning: Mental Set Shifting, Not Prepotent Response Inhibition or Working Memory Updating

Journal of Personality

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 348-360

  Fleming, Kimberly A ^a   Heintzelman, Samantha J ^a   Bartholow, Bruce D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIAN; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; CONSCIENCE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONTROL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CONSCIENCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERSONALITY; SELF-CONTROL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964922084     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12163     Document Type: Article

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