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‘Smoking, personality and reasons for smoking’: a reply to Eysenck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

I. C. McManus
I. C. McManus*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bedford College, University of LondonDepartment of Psychiatry, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London
*
1 Address for correspondence: Dr I. C. McManus, Department of Psychiatry, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London W2.
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Synopsis

A study is reported in which smokers are shown to have higher psychoticism scores than non-smokers. This result is discussed in the context of the comments made by Eysenck (1983) on an earlier paper of ours (McManus & Weeks, 1982).

Type
Brief Communications
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , November 1983 , pp. 895 - 896
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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