Morality and the imagination: Real-world moral beliefs interfere with imagining fictional content

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Philosophical Psychology 33 (7):1018-1044 (2020)
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The purpose of this paper was to test whether imaginative resistance – a term used in the philosophical literature to describe the reluctance to imagine counter-moral worlds – is experienced by peo...

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10.1080/09515089.2020.1775799

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