Moral reasoning, executive function, and personality in violent and nonviolent adult offenders

Psychological Reports

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 323-333

  Greenfield, Rebekkah ^a   Valliant, Paul M ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 34948911225     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.101.1.323-333     Document Type: Article

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