Pathological Certitude

Pathological Altruism

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Burton, Robert A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Certainty; Conviction; Feeling of knowing; Human cognition; Moral judgment; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879300265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199738571.003.0101     Document Type: Chapter

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