How should I decide? The neural correlates of everyday moral reasoning

Sommer, Monika; Rothmayr, Christoph; Döhnel, Katrin; Meinhardt, Jörg; Schwerdtner, Johannes; Sodian, Beate; Hajak, Göran

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.023

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“…The precuneus also participates more intensely in emotional tasks, such as empathic judgments (Ochsner et al, 2004), interaction with others (Rilling et al, 2004) or in processing moral conflicts (Sommer et al, 2010). Thus, we can infer, in consonance with previous morphometric studies (Deyoung et al, 2010), that its role is related to the integration of emotions into social situations, which helps guide future decisions about moral dilemmas (Moll et al, 2005a).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Neuroticism predisposes to donation more than agreeableness: An fMRI study.

Pinazo¹,

Barrós‐Loscertales²,

Peris³

et al. 2016

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics

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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in study 1, we examined the effect of two personality dimensions related to altruism such as Agreeableness and Neuroticism on the neural response to videos including images of situations from developing countries and audios of sentences employed by NGOs to demand help. For all the participants, the brain response across the whole brain was not significantly different in the Donor and Control videos. Multiple regression analyses revealed that while Agreeableness was related to activation of mentalizing brain areas (i.e., the precuneus), Neuroticism was related more to activation of the brain areas related to reward and donation. Study 2 was a psychometric study and confirmed that Neuroticism showed greater association with donation behavior and sponsoring children from developing countries than Agreeableness. Our results may serve to gain a better understanding of the relationship between personality traits and altruistic behavior.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Neuroticism predisposes to donation more than agreeableness: An fMRI study.

Pinazo¹,

Barrós‐Loscertales²,

Peris³

et al. 2016

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics

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“…Third, neuro-economic research (e.g. Zak 2011;Sommer et al 2010) hints that moral cognition contains emotional (quick, instinctive and crude), as well as reasoned (slow, deliberative and sophisticated) components. It is conceivable that these components manifest themselves as different kinds of 'otherregarding' preferences.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why do people tell the truth? Experimental evidence for pure lie aversion

López-Pérez

Spiegelman

2012

Exp Econ

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A recent experimental literature shows that truth-telling is not always motivated by pecuniary motives, and several alternative motivations have been proposed. However, their relative importance in any given context is still not totally clear. This paper investigates the relevance of pure lie aversion, that is, a dislike for lies independent of their consequences. We propose a very simple design where other motives considered in the literature predict zero truth-telling, whereas pure lie aversion predicts a non-zero rate. Thus we interpret the finding that more than a third of the subjects tell the truth as evidence for pure lie aversion. Our design also prevents confounds with another motivation (a desire to act as others expect us to act) not frequently considered but consistent with much existing evidence. We also observe that subjects who tell the truth are more likely to believe that others will tell the truth as well.We are indebted to

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“…Such decisions are usually made in the context of preference judgment (Johnson et al, 2005;Knutson et al, 2008;Nakao et al, 2009aNakao et al, , 2010aNakao et al, ,2010bSommer et al, 2010) as well as in the context of moral decision-making (Caspers et al, 2011;Greene et al, 2004;Kahane et al, 2012;Moll et al, 2006), where the answer depends on the subject's own, i.e., internal, preferences rather than on external, i.e. circumstantial, criteria.…”

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confidence: 99%