The relationship between driver aggression, violence, and vengeance

Violence and Victims

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 707-718

  Hennessy, Dwight A ^a,c   Wiesenthal, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DRIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0036949542     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/vivi.17.6.707.33719     Document Type: Article

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