Morality in high definition: Emotion differentiation calibrates the influence of incidental disgust on moral judgments

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 719-725

  Cameron, C Daryl ^a   Payne, B Keith ^a   Doris, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect misattribution; Disgust; Emotion differentiation; Moral judgment; Morality; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877019957     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.02.014     Document Type: Article

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