Sound morality: Irritating and icky noises amplify judgments in divergent moral domains

Cognition

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Seidel, Angelika ^a,b   Prinz, Jesse ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Disgust; Emotion; Moral judgment; Music

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; DISGUST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; NOISE; NOISE POLLUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

ADULT; ANGER; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE MOOD; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; NOISE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872457940     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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