Personality and misconduct correlates of body modification and other cultural deviance markers

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 779-802

  Nathanson, Craig ^a   Paulhus, Delroy L ^a   Williams, Kevin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big 5; Body modification; Misconduct; Psychopathy; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748523427     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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