Someone to blame: When identifying a victim decreases helping

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 748-755

  Kogut, Tehila ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Belief in a just world; Helping behavior; The identifiable victim effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955141794     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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