Does cleanliness influence moral judgments? Response effort moderates the effect of cleanliness priming on moral judgments
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Does cleanliness influence moral judgments? Response effort moderates the effect of cleanliness priming on moral judgments
Whether cleanliness influences moral judgments has recently become a topic of debate in the psychological literature. After the initial report that activating the notion of physical purity can result in less severe moral judgments (Schnall et al., 2008a), a direct replication (Johnson et al., 2014a) with much larger sample sizes failed to yield similar findings. The current paper examines the p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01276