Moral judgment modulation by disgust is bi-directionally moderated by individual sensitivity

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Ong, How Hwee ^a   Mullette Gillman, O'Dhaniel A ^a,b   Kwok, Kenneth ^a   Lim, Julian ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Decision making; Disgust; Moral judgment; Subliminal priming; Utilitarian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897931457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00194     Document Type: Article

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