The trouble with thinking: People want to have quick reactions to personal taboos

Emotion Review

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 318-319

  Merritt, Anna C ^a   Monin, Benoît ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

deliberation; intuition; lay theories; moral judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960016295     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073911402386     Document Type: Review

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