An experimental investigation of emotions and reasoning in the trolley problem

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 789-804

  Lanteri, Alessandro ^a,b   Chelini, Chiara ^c   Rizzello, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experiments; Intuition; Moral emotions; Moral judgement; Moral reasoning; Trolley problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349127506     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9665-8     Document Type: Review

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