Twenty years later, the cognitive portrait of openness to reconciliation in Rwanda.
With this work, we intended to draw a cognitive portrait of openness to reconciliation. No study had yet examined the potential contribution of high‐level cognitive functioning, in addition to psychological health, to explaining attitudes towards reconciliation in societies exposed to major trauma s...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 109; no. 2; pp. 362 - 386 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2018
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