Evidence That Initial Obedient Killing Fuels Subsequent Volitional Killing Beyond Effects of Practice

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 268-273

  Martens, Andy ^a   Kosloff, Spee ^b   Eckstein Jackson, Lydia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; dissonance; genocide; self; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864065832     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550609359813     Document Type: Article

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