Empirical Relationships Between Beauty and Justice: Testing Scarry and Elaborating Danto

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 249-258

  Diessner, Rhett ^a   Davis, Lisa ^a   Toney, Brett ^a  

^a LEWIS CLARK STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

beauty; character strengths; DIT; justice; trait fairness

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149093527     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014683     Document Type: Article

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