Aliens behaving badly: Children's acquisition of novel purity-based morals

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 356-360

  Rottman, Joshua ^a   Kelemen, Deborah ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Children; Disgust; Morality; Naturalness; Purity

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WELFARE;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MORALS;

EID: 84864039231     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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