Failing to take the moral high ground: Psychopathy and the vertical representation of morality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 757-767

  Meier, Brian P ^a   Sellbom, Martin ^b   Wygant, Dustin B ^b  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Metaphor; Psychopathy; Verticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250743218     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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