Moral decision-making, ToM, empathy and the default mode network
Biological Psychology March 20, 2012 Renate Reniers, Rhiannon Corcoran, Birgit Vӧllm et al. 168 citations
Automatic intuitions and deliberate reasoning, sourcing internal representations of our personal norms and values, contribute to our beliefs of what is right and wrong. We used fMRI to directly compare moral (M) and non-moral (NM) decision-making processes using scenarios requiring conscious deliberation, whereby the main character declared an intention to take a course of action. Furthermore,...