Moral Transformation: Good and Evil Turn the Weak Into the Mighty

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-258

  Gray, Kurt ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; ethics; helping; mind perception; morality; person perception; power; prosocial behavior; self control; social roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 79651472792     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610367686     Document Type: Article

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