Disgust and moral judgment

Emotions, Imagination, and Moral Reasoning

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 195-218

  Case, Trevor I ^a   Oaten, Megan J ^a   Stevenson, Richard J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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