Moral emotions and the envisaging of mitigating circumstances for wrongdoing

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 707-722

  Piazza, Jared ^a   Russell, Pascale Sophie ^b   Sousa, Paulo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anger; Deontological commitments; Disgust; Mitigating circumstances; Moral emotions; Moral judgement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DISGUST; EMERGENCY; EMOTION; ENVISAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF DEFENSE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; WRONGDOING;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FORGIVENESS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 84878071607     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2012.736859     Document Type: Article

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