Belief in gene technology: The influence of environmental attitudes and gender

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 861-866

  Siegrist, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Environmental attitudes; Gender; Gene technology; Mokken scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032091248     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00021-X     Document Type: Article

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