The kindness of strangers revisited: A comparison of 24 US cities

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 461-481

  Levine, Robert V ^a   Reysen, Stephen ^a   Ganz, Ellen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kindness of strangers

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUSOCIALITY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SOCIAL INDICATOR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36749060130     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9091-9     Document Type: Article

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