The roles of empathy, anger, and gender in predicting attitudes toward punitive, reparative, and preventative public policies

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 495-520

  Gault, Barbara A ^a   Sabini, John ^b  

^a Institute for Women's Policy Research   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLICY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0033920169     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026999300402772     Document Type: Review

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