Alienation as atrophied moral cognition and its implications for political behavior

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 301-321

  Thompson, Michael J ^a  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alienation; Moral cognition; Moral psychology; Political behavior; Reification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883558165     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12021     Document Type: Article

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