What we say and what we do: The relationship between real and hypothetical moral choices

Cognition

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 434-441

  FeldmanHall, Oriel ^a,b   Mobbs, Dean ^b   Evans, Davy ^a,b   Hiscox, Lucy ^b   Navrady, Lauren ^b   Dalgleish, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextual information; Morality; Motivational factors; Real moral decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MORAL DECISION; MORALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859700756     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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