Responsiveness to distress cues in the child withpsychopathic tendencies

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 135-145

  Blair, R J R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distress; Empathy; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001437581     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00231-1     Document Type: Article

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