Interpersonal construct systems among psychopaths

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1263-1281

  Doninger, N A ^a   Kosson, D S ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Hostile attributional bias; Interpersonal circumplex; Negative affect; Psychopathy; Race; Role construct repertory test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007508641     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00109-4     Document Type: Article

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