Violence-Related Cognition: Current Research

Aggressive Offenders' Cognition: Theory, Research, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-197

  Collie, Rachael M ^a   Vess, James ^a   Murdoch, Sharlene ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aggressive or violent attitudes; Cognitive content summary; Cognitive processing questionnaire studies; Cognitive processing summary; Distinctions between cognitive content, cognitive structures and cognitive processing; EXPAGG M with New Zealand male prisoners instrumental beliefs scale correlated with the AQ; Impression management; Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS); Violence related cognition current research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889312579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470746295.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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