Memory lane and morality: How childhood memories promote prosocial behavior.
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Memory lane and morality: how childhood memories promote prosocial behavior.
Although research has established that autobiographical memory affects one's self-concept, little is known about how it affects moral behavior. We focus on a specific type of autobiographical memory: childhood memories. Drawing on research on memory and moral psychology, we propose that childhood memories elicit moral purity, which we define as a psychological state of feeling morally clean and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1939-1315,0022-3514
DOI: 10.1037/a0026565