Domains of deontic reasoning: Resolving the discrepancy between the cognitive and moral reasoning literatures

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 447-474

  Fiddick, Laurence ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 2142811006     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980343000332     Document Type: Article

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