"you make me sick": Moral dyspepsia as a reaction to third-party sibling incest

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 100-108

  Royzman, Edward B ^a   Leeman, Robert F ^b   Sabini, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disgust; Incest; Morality; Nausea; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949131403     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-008-9089-x     Document Type: Article

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