Aversive for me, wrong for you: First-person behavioral aversions underlie the moral condemnation of harm

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 707-718

  Miller, Ryan ^a   Cushman, Fiery ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84885113306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12066     Document Type: Article

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