When Friends' and Society's Expectations Collide: A Longitudinal Study of Moral Decision-Making and Personality across College

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bollich, Kathryn L ^a   Hill, Patrick L ^b   Harms, Peter D ^c   Jackson, Joshua J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; EXPECTATION; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATURITY; MORALITY; PERSONALITY; ADOLESCENT; EGO DEVELOPMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL NORM; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT; TIME FACTOR; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; FRIENDS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORALS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL NORMS; SOFTWARE; STUDENTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954513500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146716     Document Type: Article

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