Vengeance and the Dark Triad: The role of empathy and perspective taking in trait forgivingness

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 23-29

  Giammarco, Erica A ^a   Vernon, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dark Triad; Empathy; Forgiveness; Vengeance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901248498     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.02.010     Document Type: Article

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