When a virtue is not a virtue: Conditional virtues in moral evaluation

Social Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 528-558

  Piazza, Jared ^a   Goodwin, Geoffrey P ^b   Rozin, Paul ^b   Royzman, Edward B ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84916881748     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2014.32.6.528     Document Type: Article

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