Principled moral sentiment and the flexibility of moral judgment and decision making

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 381-417

  Bartels, Daniel M ^a  

^a C74 Harper Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emotions; Ethics; Intuition; Judgment; Moral dilemmas; Moral rules; Morality; Reasoning; Values

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ETHICS; MORALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AFFECT; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS;

EID: 45649083199     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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