Moral judgments and the role of social harm: Differences in automatic versus controlled processing.
The social intuitionist model has served as an important corrective to the earlier dominance of rational deliberation in moral psychology. Yet the relationship between intuition and deliberation in moral judgments remains largely unexplored. Three studies were conducted to explore the role of automa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 1 - 7 |
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Academic Press Inc.
January 2011
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