Y2K affiliation, immediate pedestrian density, and helping responses to lost letters

Psychological Reports

Volumn 88, Issue 3 PART 2, 2001, Pages 1091-1095

  Bridges, F Stephen ^a   Thompson, Paul C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; COOPERATION; FORECASTING; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; WRITING;

CHRONOLOGY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CORRESPONDENCE; FORECASTING; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 0035379374     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.3c.1091     Document Type: Article

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