Personality and individual difference correlates of attitudes toward human rights and civil liberties

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 443-447

  Swami, Viren ^a,b   Nader, Ingo W ^c   Pietschnig, Jakob ^c   Stieger, Stefan ^c   Tran, Ulrich S ^c   Voracek, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HELP UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Big Five; Civil liberties; Human rights; Right wing authoritarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862336382     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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