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  1. The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA

    S. Kathleen Bishop, James W. Moore & Marshall P. Lundy

  2. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA

    Mark R. Dixon

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Bishop, S.K., Dixon, M.R., Moore, J.W., Lundy, M.P. (2016). Behavioral Perspectives on Personality. 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_962-1

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