"But he's my brother": The impact of family obligation on moral judgments and decisions.
We created practical moral dilemmas for which participants imagined witnessing a transgression by a target person. The identity of the transgressor was manipulated to be either a stranger or the participant's brother. In Experiment 1, whether the target person committed a violation was left ambiguou...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 158 - 171 |
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