Nonrational processes in ethical decision making

American Psychologist

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 614-623

  Rogerson, Mark D ^a   Gottlieb, Michael C ^a   Handelsman, Mitchell M ^b   Knapp, Samuel ^c   Younggren, Jeffrey ^d  

^a University of Colorado Denver ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Pennsylvania Psychological Association   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emotion; Ethics; Heuristics; Intuition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTUITION;

DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT;

EID: 80054065336     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025215     Document Type: Article

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