The Importance of Moral Construal: Moral versus Non-Moral Construal Elicits Faster, More Extreme, Universal Evaluations of the Same Actions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  van Bavel, Jay J ^a   Packer, Dominic J ^b   Haas, Ingrid Johnsen ^c   Cunningham, William A ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTIONALITY; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORALS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870328573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048693     Document Type: Article

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