Self-insight into emotional and cognitive abilities is not related to higher adjustment

Nature Human Behaviour

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2019, Pages 867-884

  He, Joyce C ^a   Côté, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORGANIZATION; STUDENT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 85070273423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23973374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0644-0     Document Type: Article

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