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A Templeton Conversation: This is the sixth in a series of conversations among leading scientists, scholars, and public figures about the "Big Questions."

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Annual Review of Neuroscience, 33(1):299

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"Patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) exhibit a set of behavioral disturbances that have been strongly associated with involvement of the prefrontal cortex (PFC)."

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"By contrasting dilemmas where utilitarian judgments are counterintuitive with dilemmas in which they are intuitive, we were able to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify the neural correlates of intuitive and counterintuitive judgments across a range of moral situations."

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Crockett et al. have done some fascinating experiments demonstrating that increased serotonin makes individuals less likely to endorse moral scenarios that result in the infliction of personal harm to others.

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But what if neither is correct? What if our moral judgments are driven instead by more visceral human considerations? And what if one of those is not divine commandment or inductive reasoning, but simply whether a situation, in some small way, makes us feel like throwing up?

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Study of moral judgment finds that patients with a specific brain defect lack the emotional reaction necessary to find fault with attempted murderers

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Emotions such as empathy and disgust might be at the root of morality, but psychologists should also study the roles of deliberation and debate in how our opinions shift over time, argues Paul Bloom.

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Moral psychology is the empirical study of how people make moral judgements. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discusses the relevance of psychological research to moral philosophy. (Philosophy Bites)

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In our legal system, judges and juries have to assign responsibility for crimes and decide on appropriate punishments. A new imaging study reveals which area of the brain plays a key role in these cognitive processes. (Scientific American)

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Neuroscientists from USC, Harvard, Caltech and Iowa trace harmful moral choices to damaged emotional circuits.

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Course Syllabus: Moral Reasoning (Psych 430/630)
Professor: David Pizarro

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