Children are naturally prone to be empathic and moral - The Diigo Meta page

• 17 Jul 08
  

  Arne Løining

  children psychology empaty

  • However, when the children saw animations of someone intentionally hurt, the regions of the brain engaged in social interaction and moral reasoning (the temporo-parietal junction, the paracigulate, orital medial frontal cortices and amygdala) also were activated.
  • "Although our study did not tap into explicit moral judgment, perceiving an individual intentionally harming another person is likely to elicit the awareness of moral wrongdoing in the observer,"

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