Humane education research: Evaluating efforts to encourage children's kindness and caring toward animals

Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-77

  Ascione, Frank R ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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