How Power Influences Moral Thinking

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-289

  Lammers, Joris ^a   Stapel, Diederik A ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

consequentialism; deontological; outcome based; power and moral thinking; rule based

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MORALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT; THINKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MORALS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; THINKING;

EID: 67949124847     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015437     Document Type: Article

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