Ecological Moral Realism: An Alternative Theoretical Framework for Studying Moral Psychology

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 118-126

  Jayawickreme, Eranda ^a   Chemero, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affordances; ecological psychology; fact value distinction; positive psychology; values; virtue

Indexed keywords

EID: 45449088136     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.12.2.118     Document Type: Article

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