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Psychol Belg. 2017 Apr 26;57(1):59-76. doi: 10.5334/pb.341.

Terminating a Child's Life? Religious, Moral, Cognitive, and Emotional Factors Underlying Non-Acceptance of Child Euthanasia.

Psychologica Belgica

Csilla Deak, Vassilis Saroglou

Affiliations

  1. Université catholique de Louvain, BE.
  2. Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, BE.

PMID: 30479454 PMCID: PMC5808110 DOI: 10.5334/pb.341

Abstract

Is opposition to child euthanasia motivated only by ideology, or also by other personality characteristics and individual differences? In Belgium, the first country to legalize child euthanasia (in 2014), we investigated religious, moral, emotional, and cognitive factors underlying the (dis)approval of this legalization (

Keywords: conservatism; euthanasia; moral foundations; prosociality; religion

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

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