Regular ArticleSexual Dimensions of Person Description: Beyond or Subsumed by the Big Five?☆
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Portions of this article constituted part of the first author's doctoral dissertation. This research was supported, in part, by NIMH Grant MH-44206-02 to David M. Buss. We thank several anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to David P. Schmitt, Department of Psychology, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625. E-mail: [email protected].