Real-time elicitation of moral emotions using a prejudice paradigm

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2012, Pages

  Fourie, Melike M ^a   Kilchenmann, Nadine ^a   Malcolm Smith, Susan ^a   Thomas, Kevin G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Behavioral inhibition; Emotion elicitation; Guilt; Implicit association test; Moral emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867131844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00275     Document Type: Article

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