The moral behavior of ethics professors: Relationships among self-reported behavior, expressed normative attitude, and directly observed behavior

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 293-327

  Schwitzgebel, Eric ^a   Rust, Joshua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied Ethics; Attitude Behavior Consistency; Charity; Ethics; Experimental Philosophy; Moral Behavior; Moral Psychology; Vegetarianism; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898836440     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2012.727135     Document Type: Article

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