Unsentimental ethics: Towards a content-specific account of the moral-conventional distinction

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 159-174

  Royzman, Edward B ^a   Leeman, Robert F ^b   Baron, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Convention; Disgust; Harm; Morality

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VICTIM;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; MOTIVATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349113170     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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