Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "morality"
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Cognitive Load Selectively Interferes with Utilitarian Moral Judgment
(Elsevier, 2008)Traditional theories of moral development emphasize the role of controlled cognition in mature moral judgment, while a more recent trend emphasizes intuitive and emotional processes. Here we test a dual-process theory ... -
Constructivism in Practical Philosophy
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Distortions of Mind Perception in Psychopathology
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)It has long been known that psychopathology can influence social perception, but a 2D framework of mind perception provides the opportunity for an integrative understanding of some disorders. We examined the covariation ... -
For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything
(The Royal Society, 2004)The rapidly growing field of cognitive neuroscience holds the promise of explaining the operations of the mind in terms of the physical operations of the brain. Some suggest that our emerging understanding of the physical ... -
Morality Constrains the Default Representation of What Is Possible
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017-04-18)The capacity for representing and reasoning over sets of possibilities, or modal cognition, supports diverse kinds of high-level judgments: causal reasoning, moral judgment, language comprehension, and more. Prior research ... -
On “Rethinking” Craft Specialization: Responses by the Authors
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Variation in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is associated with differences in moral judgment
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Moral judgments are produced through the coordinated interaction of multiple neural systems, each of which relies on a characteristic set of neurotransmitters. Genes that produce or regulate these neurotransmitters may ...