The relationship between empathy and personality in undergraduate students' attitudes toward nonhuman animals

Society and Animals

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-38

  Eckardt Erlanger, Ann C ^a   Tsytsarev, Sergei V ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

ATTAS; Attitudes toward animals; Empathy; IPIP

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84855646540     PISSN: 10631119     EISSN: 15685306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853012X614341     Document Type: Article

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