Personality Predicts Obedience in a Milgram Paradigm

Journal of Personality

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 299-306

  Bègue, Laurent ^a   Beauvois, Jean Léon ^b   Courbet, Didier ^c   Oberlé, Dominique ^d   Lepage, Johan ^a   Duke, Aaron A ^a,e  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d University Paris West Economix   (France)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONSCIENCE; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TORTURE;

ADULT; CONSCIENCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; TORTURE;

EID: 84929029103     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12104     Document Type: Article

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