Anticipatory stress interferes with utilitarian moral judgment

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-68

  Starcke, Katrin ^a   Ludwig, Anne Catrin ^a   Brand, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dilemmas; Heart rate; Moral decision making; Stress; Utilitarian judgments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856639188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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