The Dark Triad and animal cruelty: Dark personalities, dark attitudes, and dark behaviors

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 666-670

  Kavanagh, Phillip S ^a   Signal, Tania D ^b   Taylor, Nik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal cruelty; Attitudes; Behavior; Dark Triad; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880734686     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.05.019     Document Type: Article

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