Moral principles or consumer preferences? Alternative framings of the trolley problem

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 311-321

  Rai, Tage S ^a   Holyoak, Keith J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biases and heuristics; Decision making; Modularity; Moral judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953158277     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01088.x     Document Type: Article

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