The effect of disgust conditioning and disgust sensitivity on appraisals of moral transgressions

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1142-1146

  David, Bieke ^a   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Disgust; Morality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952619976     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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