Another fundamental social category? Spontaneous categorization of people who uphold or violate moral norms

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1385-1388

  van Leeuwen, Florian ^a   Park, Justin H ^a   Penton Voak, Ian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fundamental categories; Memory confusion paradigm; Morality; Social categorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865652923     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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