Taboo or tragic: Effect of tradeoff type on moral choice, conflict, and confidence

Mind and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 215-226

  Mandel, David R ^a   Vartanian, Oshin ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytic and intuitive processes; Confidence; Moral choice; Moral conflict; Omission bias; Problem difficulty; Subjective mental effort; Trolley problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049148031     PISSN: 15937879     EISSN: 18601839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11299-007-0037-3     Document Type: Article

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