Moralization and Harmification: The Dyadic Loop Explains How the Innocuous Becomes Harmful and Wrong

Psychological Inquiry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 62-65

  Schein, Chelsea ^a   Gray, Kurt ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 84958175578     PISSN: 1047840X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2016.1111121     Document Type: Note

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