Punishing hypocrisy: The roles of hypocrisy and moral emotions in deciding culpability and punishment of criminal and civil moral transgressors

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-83

  Laurent, Sean M ^a   Clark, Brian A M ^b   Walker, Stephannie ^a   Wiseman, Kimberly D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Disgust; Hypocrisy; Moral emotions; Morality; Psychology and law

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE; CIVIL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DISGUST; EMOTION; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOCRISY; MALE; MORALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT;

CRIMINALS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890425043     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.801339     Document Type: Article

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