Does psychopathy manifest divergent relations with components of its nomological network depending on gender?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 564-569

  Miller, Joshua D ^a   Watts, Ashley ^a   Jones, Shayne E ^b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Externalizing behaviors; Gender; Personality; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551612333     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.028     Document Type: Article

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