Sensational interests and general personality traits

Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 567-582

  Egan, Vincent ^a   Auty, Jonathan ^a   Miller, Rowan ^a   Ahmadi, Shahla ^a   Richardson, Cathryn ^a   Gargan, Ian ^a  

^a Arnold Lodge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forensic; Interests; Occult; Personality; Sadism; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRIME; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MYSTICISM; NEUROSIS; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SADISM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0033391560     PISSN: 09585184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585189908402160     Document Type: Article

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