Is Empathizing intuitive and Systemizing deliberative?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 39-43

  Brosnan, Mark ^a   Hollinworth, Melissa ^a   Antoniadou, Konstantina ^b   Lewton, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deliberation; Dual process theory; E S theory; Empathizing; Intuition; Systemizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897486290     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.03.006     Document Type: Article

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