The presence of others, prosocial traits, Machiavellianism : A personality × situation approach

Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 238-245

  Bereczkei, Tamas ^a   Birkas, Bela ^a   Kerekes, Zsuzsanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Altruism; Helping behavior; Machiavellian intelligence; Observation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955066684     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000032     Document Type: Article

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