What do People Mean when Speaking of Evilness?
- María de las Nieves Quiles del Castillo
- María Dolores Morera Bello
- Ana Delia Correa Piñero
- Jacques Philippe Leyens
ISSN: 1138-7416
Year of publication: 2010
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Pages: 788-797
Type: Article
More publications in: The Spanish Journal of Psychology
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JCR (Journal Impact Factor)
- Year 2010
- Journal Impact Factor: 0.704
- Journal Impact Factor without self cites: 0.585
- Article influence score: 0.253
- Best Quartile: Q3
- Area: PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Quartile: Q3 Rank in area: 80/120 (Ranking edition: SSCI)
SCImago Journal Rank
- Year 2010
- SJR Journal Impact: 0.317
- Best Quartile: Q2
- Area: Linguistics and Language Quartile: Q2 Rank in area: 156/602
- Area: Psychology (miscellaneous) Quartile: Q3 Rank in area: 119/235
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(Data updated as of 08-04-2023)- Total citations: 14
- Recent citations: 0
- Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): 0.12
Funding information
This research was funded by FEDER and by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Research Project SEJ2005-05135/PSIC). It forms part of the National Plan of Research and Development Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Mª Nieves Quiles del Castillo. Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, Social y Organizacional. Facultad de Psicología. Universidad de La Laguna. Campus de Guajara S/N. 38205 La Laguna. Tenerife. (Spain). E-mail: mquiles@ull.es.Funders
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Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
Spain
- SEJ2005-05135/PSIC
- Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras Spain
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