Active transgressions and moral elusions: Action framing influences moral behavior

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 284-288

  Teper, Rimma ^a   Inzlicht, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altruism; Decision making; Helping; Judgment and decision making; Morality; Prosocial behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051766163     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610389338     Document Type: Article

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