Moral judgment reloaded: A moral dilemma validation study

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Christensen, Julia F ^a   Flexas, Albert ^a   Calabrese, Margareta ^a   Gut, Nadine K ^a,b,c   Gomila, Antoni ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA INTERDISCIPLINAR Y SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS IFISC CSIC UIB   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Decision making; DPHMJ; Moral dilemmas; Moral judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904858620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00607     Document Type: Article

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