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  1. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

    Khairul Anwar Mastor

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

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    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

    Anna Czarna

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Mastor, K.A. (2020). Nomothetic Study of Personality. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_477

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