Are good reasoners more incest-friendly? Trait cognitive reflection predicts selective moralization in a sample of American adults

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 176-190

  Royzman, Edward B ^a   Landy, Justin F ^a   Goodwin, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CRT; Harm; Judgment; Moral conventional; Rational

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901658864     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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