Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: Traits as density distributions of states

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1011-1027

  Fleeson, William ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85047685372     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.80.6.1011     Document Type: Article

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