Religion and helping: Impact of target thinking styles and just-world beliefs

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 215-236

  Pichon, Isabelle ^a   Saroglou, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Helping; Just world beliefs; Orthodoxy; Prosocial behavior; Religious priming; Symbolic thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849126616     PISSN: 00846724     EISSN: 15736121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157361209X424466     Document Type: Article

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