Emotions in time: Moral emotions apear more intense with temporal distance

Social Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-198

  Agerström, Jens ^a   Björklund, Fredrik ^a   Carlsson, Rickard ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84865803499     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2012.30.2.181     Document Type: Article

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