Everyday sadism predicts violent video game preferences

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 19-23

  Greitemeyer, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aggression; Dark Triad; Sadism; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911363232     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.10.049     Document Type: Article

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