Vengeance: Effects of gender, age, and religious background

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 343-350

  Cota McKinley, Amy L ^a   Woody, William Douglas ^b   Bell, Paul A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Gender; Religion; Retribution; Revenge; Vengeance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354234     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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