Exploring the psychological underpinnings of the moral mandate effect: Motivated reasoning, group differentiation, or anger?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 629-643

  Mullen, Elizabeth ^a,c   Skitka, Linda J ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Fairness; Justice; Moral mandate

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; CHICAGO; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CRIME; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; MOTIVATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 33744737212     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.4.629     Document Type: Article

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