Look at yourself!: Visual perspective influences moral judgment by level of mental construal

Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-46

  Agerström, Jens ^a   Björklund, Fredrik ^a   Carlsson, Rickard ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Construal; Moral judgment; Visual perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872539367     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000100     Document Type: Article

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