Use of a Rasch model to predict response times to utilitarian moral dilemmas

Synthese

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-117

  Baron, Jonathan ^a   Gürçay, Burcu ^a   Moore, Adam B ^b   Starcke, Katrin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual system; Moral judgment; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992611122     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0121-z     Document Type: Article

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