Social Justifications for Moral Emotions: When Reasons for Disgust Are Less Elaborated Than for Anger

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 637-646

  Russell, Pascale Sophie ^a   Giner Sorolla, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anger; Disgust; Moral emotions; Reasons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; MALE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; PEDOPHILIA; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959286467     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022600     Document Type: Article

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