The Moral Compass of Insecurity: Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Predict Moral Judgment

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 185-194

  Koleva, Spassena ^a   Selterman, Dylan ^b   Iyer, Ravi ^a   Ditto, Peter ^c   Graham, Jesse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attachment; close relationships; emotion; moral judgment; morality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893634302     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613490965     Document Type: Article

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