Moral intuitions and religiosity as spuriously correlated life history traits

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-184

  Gladden, Paul ^a,b   Welch, Jessica ^a   Figueredo, Aurelio ^a   Jacobs, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Disgust; Life History theory; Moral intuitions; Religiosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349610844     PISSN: 17892082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/JEP.7.2009.2.5     Document Type: Article

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