Varieties of Moral Personality: Beyond the Banality of Heroism

Journal of Personality

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 907-942

  Walker, Lawrence J ^a   Frimer, Jeremy A ^a   Dunlop, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77954003482     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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