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Jun
5
2011

"New research finds moral disgust can elicit a physical reaction, changing our evaluation of a beverage."

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  • self-described Christians were more likely to describe a beverage as disgusting following exposure to an incompatible belief system.
Feb
8
2009

  • Located deep inside the brain, the insula is involved in emotion. It collects and processes sensory information from the rest of the body, and translates them into conscious emotional experiences, such as cravings, hunger or pain.
Jun
16
2008

"Localization studies of morality (see Dolan, 1999 on the "neurology of morals") date back to the days of Franz Joseph Gall and John M. Harlow, the doctor who treated Phineas Gage1. Gall's phrenology was largely discredited by the mid-19th century. That didn't stop Moritz Benedikt, however, from postulating that morality was located in the occipital lobes! (Verplaetse, 2004). " (The Neurocritic)

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