Associations among personality, combat exposure and wartime atrocities

Psychology of Violence

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 260-272

  Holowka, Darren W ^a   Wolf, Erika J ^a   Marx, Brian P ^a   Foley, Kristen M ^a   Kaloupek, Danny G ^a   Keane, Terence M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

abusive violence; aggression; atrocities; combat exposure; personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874100244     PISSN: 21520828     EISSN: 2152081X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026903     Document Type: Article

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