Individualism and authoritarianism shape attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2613-2631

  Kemmelmeier, Markus ^b   Burnstein, Eugene ^c   Peng, Kaiping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0033472999     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb00128.x     Document Type: Article

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