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Moral Foundations Theory
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Metadata
- Authors
- Graham, J., Haidt, J., Koleva, S., Motyl, M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S. P., & Ditto, P. H.
- Venue
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 55-130
- ISSN
- 0065-2601 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4292545669
- Cited by
- 1,716
- References
- 38
- FWCI
- 112.77
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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