"I would kill in god's name:" Role of sex, weekly church attendance, report of a religious experience, and limbic lability

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 128-130

  Persinger, M A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031205110     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.85.1.128     Document Type: Article

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