Moral kinematics: The role of physical factors in moral judgments.
Harmful events often have a strong physical component-for instance, car accidents, plane crashes, fist fights, and military interventions. Yet there has been very little systematic work on the degree to which physical factors influence our moral judgments about harm. Since physical factors are relat...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 40; no. 8; pp. 1387 - 1402 |
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Nov2012
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