To help or not to help? Factors that determined helping responses to Katrina victims

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 159-173

  Avdeyeva, Tatyana V ^a   Burgetova, Kristina ^a   Welch, I David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

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EID: 37249007114     PISSN: 15297489     EISSN: 15302415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2006.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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