Reducing the Tendency to Aggress: Insights from Social and Personality Psychology

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 343-354

  Meier, Brian P ^a   Wilkowski, Benjamin M ^b  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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EID: 84879465691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12029     Document Type: Article

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