Moral Judgment and the Brain: A Functional Approach to the Question of Emotion and Cognition in Moral Judgment Integrating Psychology, Neuroscience and Evolutionary Biology

摘要: Moral judgment can be defined as the evaluation of actions with respect to social norms and values established in a society (such not stealing or being an honest citizen).1Judging whether our own those another person are good bad (respectively harmful for individuals whole) is very central everyday life because it guides behavior community. Therefore, question how humans think about right wrong has recurred over centuries many disciplines including philosophy, arts, religion, economics, law studies (see Goodenough & Prehn, 2004). More recently, moral judgments made which processes involved triggered much research psychology neuroscience. One key issue comprises what extent open conscious deliberation sense product education (i.e., acquisition knowledge on values) rather result innate mechanism activated during childhood. In particular, caused by emotional cognitive2processes responses make better worse controversies debates.