"End-of-life" biases in moral evaluations of others

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 343-349

  Newman, George E ^a   Lockhart, Kristi L ^a   Keil, Frank C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biases; Death; Heuristics; Moral evaluations; Moral reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEHAVIOR; DEATH; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; RELIGION;

EID: 77649185315     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.014     Document Type: Article

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