Who makes utilitarian judgments? The influences of emotions on utilitarian judgments

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 580-592

  Choe, So Young ^a   Min, Kyung Hwan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Decision making; Disposition; Emotion; Moral judgment; Personality; Utilitarian judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055072612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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