Personality correlates of heroic rescue during the holocaust

Journal of Personality

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 907-934

  Midlarsky, Elizabeth ^a   Jones, Stephanie Fagin ^a   Corley, Robin P ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; COOPERATION; CRIME; DISASTER; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; WAR;

AGED; ALTRUISM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; JEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RESCUE WORK; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 21644444689     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00333.x     Document Type: Article

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