Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

In this paper, we question the simplicity of the common prescription that more thinking leads to better 26 moral choices. In three studies, we discover that the relationship between how complexly one reasons 27 before making a decision with moral consequences is related to the outcome of that decision in a curvi

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