RST and psychopathy: Associations between psychopathy and the behavioral activation and inhibition systems

The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 398-414

  Wallace, John F ^a   Newman, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84862009465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511819384.014     Document Type: Chapter

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