Construal levels and moral judgment: Some complications

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 628-638

  Gong, Han ^a   Medin, Douglas L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal level theory; Moral judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867164789     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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