That could be me (or not): Senseless violence and the role of deservingness, victim ethnicity, Person identification, and position identification

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1361-1383

  Lodewijkx, Hein F M ^a   De Kwaadsteniet, Erik W ^b   Nijstad, Bernard A ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 29144447351     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2005.tb02174.x     Document Type: Article

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