Virtual personalities: Using computational modeling to understand within-person variability

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 69, Issue , 2017, Pages 237-249

  Read, Stephen J ^a   Smith, Benjamin J ^a   Droutman, Vitaliya ^a   Miller, Lynn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Between person variability; Social computational modeling; Virtual personalities; Within person variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006459278     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.10.005     Document Type: Article

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