Evaluating Callous-Unemotional Traits as a Personality Construct

Journal of Personality

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 710-722

  Frick, Paul J ^a,b   Ray, James V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; EMOTION; EMPATHY; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; PERSONALITY;

EID: 84958743759     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12114     Document Type: Article

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