Hot years and serious and deadly assault: Empirical tests of the heat hypothesis

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1213-1223

  Anderson, Craig A ^a   Bushman, Brad J ^b,c   Groom, Ralph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CRIME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; RAPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; THEFT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CRIME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAT; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RAPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; THEFT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031300539     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.73.6.1213     Document Type: Article

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