Alternative medicine: A psychological perspective

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1169-1178

  Saher, Marieke ^a   Lindeman, Marjaana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Dual processing; Magical thinking; Paranormal beliefs; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144513759     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.04.008     Document Type: Article

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