Mapping Gray's BIS and BAS constructs onto Factor 1 and Factor 2 of Hare's Psychopathy Checklist - Revised

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 812-816

  Wallace, John F ^a   Malterer, Melanie B ^a   Newman, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

BAS; BIS; PCL R factors; Psychopathy; Psychopathy checklist revised; Reinforcement sensitivity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849093900     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.019     Document Type: Article

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