Evolutionary Personality Psychology

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 851-877

  Figueredo, Aurelio José ^a   Sefcek, Jon A ^a   Vasquez, Geneva ^a   Brumbach, Barbara H ^a   King, James E ^a   Jake Jacobs, W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical evidence; Evolutionary personality psychology; Human personality research; Nonhuman personality research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987784856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470939376.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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