Neuroscience
Ill-gotten gains are worth less in the brain
The brain responds less to money gained from immoral actions than money earned decently, reveals a new UCL-led study.
May 1, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Tests can quantify automatic empathy and moral intuitions
When people scan the latest political headlines or watch a video from a war-ravaged land, they tend to feel snap ethical or moral responses first and reason through them later. Now a team of psychologists have developed news ...
Mar 30, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research examines impact of foreign language on risk perception, moral judgment
Researchers are only beginning to understand how a foreign language affects decision-making, with early findings coming in areas such as moral judgment and risk assessment.
Nov 21, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Fair or unfair? Facial cues influence how social exclusion is judged
People are often excluded from social groups. As researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland report in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, whether uninvolved observers find this acceptable or not may ...
Aug 29, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Drug-use may hamper moral judgment
Regular cocaine and methamphetamine users can have difficulty choosing between right and wrong, perhaps because the specific parts of their brains used for moral processing and evaluating emotions are damaged by their prolonged ...
Jul 13, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Differences in the importance of intentions and circumstances in moral judgments across diverse societies
(Medical Xpress)—Do all cultures place the same importance on a person's motives when making moral judgments? According to the "moral intent hypothesis" all societies consider a person's intent, motivation, and circumstances ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers help explain why we favor a black and white approach to morality
Would you kill one innocent person to save five?
Apr 7, 2016
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Neuroscience
Probing the relationship between brain activity and moral judgments of children
It has long been known that the foundations of morality are present in children from a very young age, and that morality matures during childhood. But how is brain activity related to moral judgments in young children?
Mar 9, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How do we make moral judgements?
In a target article published in the current issue of the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) Neuroscience, Université de Montréal and IRCM neuroethics experts open the black box of moral intuitions by suggesting a new ...
Nov 26, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Bad' video game behavior increases players' moral sensitivity
(Medical Xpress)—New evidence suggests heinous behavior played out in a virtual environment can lead to players' increased sensitivity toward the moral codes they violated.
Jun 27, 2014
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