Neural evidence for “intuitive prosecution”: The use of mental state information for negative moral verdicts Short Title: Mental states for negative judgments
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1 *** In Press at Social Neuroscience 9/14/10 *** Neural evidence for “intuitive prosecution”: The use of mental state information for negative moral verdicts Short Title: Mental states for negative judgments Liane Young, Jonathan Scholz, Rebecca Saxe Massachusetts Institute of Technology Address correspondence to Liane Young, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, Tel/Fax: 617-324-2891 E-mail: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2010