Imagine you are a train-yard operator who sees an out-of-control boxcar running down a track that five workers are repairing. …
moral decision-making
Manipulating moral judgments… in the lab
Adding to a growing understanding of the underlying brain functions involved in moral decision-making, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University—including neuroscientist Marc Hauser, author of the 2006 book Moral Minds— found that manipulating activity in a certain brain region
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