What Dilemma? Moral Evaluation Shapes Factual Belief

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 316-323

  Liu, Brittany S ^a   Ditto, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cost benefit analysis; morality; motivated reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876195152     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612456045     Document Type: Article

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