Mortality salience and morality: Thinking about death makes people less utilitarian

2012/06/13 by Bastien Trémolière, Wim De Neys, Jean-François Bonnefon +1 · 26 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion #Social and Intergroup Psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.011

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