Sweatshop labor is wrong unless the shoes are cute: Cognition can both help and hurt moral motivated reasoning

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-88

  Paharia, Neeru ^a   Vohs, Kathleen D ^b   Deshpandé, Rohit ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethical decision making; Moral reasoning; Motivated reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875275839     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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