The curious tale of Julie and Mark: Unraveling the moral dumbfounding effect

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 296-313

  Royzman, Edward B ^a   Kim, Kwanwoo ^a   Leeman, Robert F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disgust; Emotion; Incest; Moral dumbfounding; Moral judgment; Rational; Reason

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938540805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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