Moral reasoning: The influence of affective personality, dilemma content and gender

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1259-1276

  Agerström, Jens ^a   Möller, Kristiina ^b   Archer, Trevor ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affective personality; Dilemma content; Gender; Moral reasoning; Perfectionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751432522     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2006.34.10.1259     Document Type: Article

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