Openness to experience

The Wiley Handbook of Genius

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 222-243

  McCrae, Robert R ^b   Greenberg, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Case studies; Development; Five factor model; Heritability; Jazz; Mathematics; Personality traits; Universality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85071152997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118367377.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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