A group construal account of drop-in-the-bucket thinking in policy preference and moral judgment

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-57

  Bartels, Daniel M ^a   Burnett, Russell C ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b US Government Accountability Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Entitativity; Identifiable victim effect; Individuation; Moral judgment; Moral reasoning; Proportion dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650013227     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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