Emotions in sexual morality: Testing the separate elicitors of anger and disgust

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1208-1222

  Giner Sorolla, Roger ^a   Bosson, Jennifer K ^b   Caswell, T Andrew ^b   Hettinger, Vanessa E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Appraisals; Disgust; Morality; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; MALE; MORALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALITY;

ANGER; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84866300804     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.645278     Document Type: Article

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