"Black and White" thinking: Visual contrast polarizes moral judgment

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 355-359

  Zarkadi, Theodora ^a   Schnall, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black and white; Embodiment; Metaphor; Moral judgment; Morality; Visual contrast

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872551338     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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