The Devil You Think You Know: A Psychology of Evil

At the Interface: Probing the Boundaries

Volumn 45, Issue , 2008, Pages 13-28

  Burris, Christopher T ^a   Rempel, John K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

labelling; prototype; psychology; responses to evil

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949091682     PISSN: 15707113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/9789401205603_003     Document Type: Chapter

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