Emotions as moral intuitions

Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 161-176

  Keltner, Dacher ^a   Horberg, E J ^a   Oveis, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203720752     Document Type: Chapter

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