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- National Character
- Subjective Quality Judgments
- National Level Means
- Describe Personality Traits
- Princeton University Students
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Realo, A., Allik, J. (2017). National Character. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_475-1
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