Wars and increased solar-geomagnetic activity: Aggression or change in intraspecies dominance?

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 88, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1351-1355

  Persinger, M A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MAGNETISM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOLAR ENERGY; WAR;

AGGRESSION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; WAR;

EID: 0033143980     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.88.3.1351-1355     Document Type: Article

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