Soft on crime: Patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage allocate reduced third-party punishment to violent criminals

Erik, W.; Gullickson, James T.; Warner, Kelsey; Koscik, Timothy R.; Denburg, Natalie L.; Tranel, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2019.03.024

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“…The fact that third-party punishment is altruistic (i.e., meaning that it is costly to the punisher and does not result in direct benefits) suggests that motivation for justice or fairness plays a big role, closely linking it with morality. In accordance with the previous findings (Ciaramelli et al, 2012;Young et al, 2010), people with vmPFC damage assigned more lenient punishments to criminals that committed violent crimes, whereas punishments allocated to criminals that committed non-violent crimes were equal to healthy controls (Asp et al, 2019). This study provides evidence for deficits in the moral act of third-party punishment among people with vmPFC ABI.…”

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Unravelling moral cognition in acquired brain injury: a scoping review

et al. 2021

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Background: Acquired brain injury (ABI) is accompanied by impairments in social, emotional, cognitive and behavioural skills and highly prevalent in the population. Social and emotional skills are crucial for moral cognition, but the extent to which moral cognition contributes to social competence deficits in people with ABI is largely unclear. Method: To provide more insight on this topic, we conducted a scoping review according to the PRISMA guidelines. After screening 1269 articles that we obtained via PubMed and Scopus, we found 27 articles on moral cognition in ABI. Results: We encountered four important topics across these studies which include traumatic brain injury (TBI) versus non-TBI, the influence of the different approaches used to measure moral cognition in ABI, the role of age of onset and the role of location of the injury. Overall, evidence suggests that the earlier the brain damage occurred, the more this leads to impairments in moral cognitive functioning. The location of the injury furthermore seems to differentially affect the way impairments are manifested. Finally, we found that the use of different measurement approaches can heavily influence the interpretation of the impairment. Conclusion: We conclude that impairments in moral cognition in people with ABI are derived from a complex interplay between the age of onset, the location and the approach used to index moral cognition.

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confidence: 90%