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Implicit Morality: A Methodological Survey

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Experimental Ethics

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A large hunk of research in moral psychology is devoted to self-reports, which represent the end product of a complex and diverse bundle of underlying cognitive processes.1 There is more to the moral processing, however, than what can be discerned from introspection or straightfor-ward paper-and-pencil methodologies. A complete account must include all of the processes — explicit or implicit, articulated or unspoken — that go into everyday moral responses.

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Strohminger, N., Caldwell, B., Cameron, D., Borg, J.S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2014). Implicit Morality: A Methodological Survey. In: Luetge, C., Rusch, H., Uhl, M. (eds) Experimental Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137409805_10

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