Utilitarian Moral Judgments Are Cognitively Too Demanding
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Moral judgments, emotions and the utilitarian brain.
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عنوان ژورنال: OALib
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2333-9721,2333-9705
DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1102380