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SPECIAL SECTION: ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY CHANGE Guest Editors: Christopher J. Hopwood, Wiebke Bleidorn, Johannes Zimmermann

Assessing the Desire to Change Personality across MethodsOpen DataOpen Materials

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Pages 447-457 | Received 28 May 2021, Accepted 08 Jul 2021, Published online: 30 Jul 2021

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