Clean, proper and tidy are more than the absence of dirty, disgusting and wrong

Emotion Review

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 264-266

  Schnall, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clean; disgust; morality; social grooming

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959926928     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073911402397     Document Type: Review

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