Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

The paper identifies a core brain network for detecting moral content using fMRI data from naturalistic narrative listening.

The paper investigates sex-specific effects of estradiol and instrumental harm on moral decision-making, finding no behavioral differences between women and men but associations between estradiol and moral sensitivity.

This study examines how political orientation and empathy influence moral judgments and neural responses to everyday behaviors in ecologically valid contexts.

The paper investigates the developing neural circuits of third-party punishment using intracranial SEEG in children and adults, finding age-related differences in brain activity and connectivity.

The paper examines how neural correlates of error awareness predict moral wrongness and guilt proneness using EEG and MRI data from participants simulating moral and immoral actions.

The paper presents a trolley-like dilemma experiment to study how autonomous systems influence moral decision-making and human agency.

The paper develops a neurofunctional signature of disgust using fMRI and machine learning, showing it generalizes across core disgust, gustatory distaste, and socio-moral contexts.

The paper examines how observers respond to moral hypocrisy by analyzing behavioral and neural data, finding that hypocrisy is sometimes praised and linked to specific brain activity patterns.

The paper investigates how framing a norm violation affects third-party punishment and identifies brain regions involved in this effect.

The paper investigates genetic influences on principled and opportunistic justice sensitivity using twin data, identifying two heritable traits linked to different moral motivations.

The paper investigates moral judgments of food-wasting behavior using behavioral and neuroimaging data, finding that food-wasting is seen as morally wrong and linked to disgust.

The paper investigates neural mechanisms of model-free learning in moral decision-making, finding that model-free learning prioritizes avoiding harm to others over self and involves specific brain regions.

This study uses ERPs to show that moral context modulates neural responses to neutral faces, with early and agency-related effects, and explicit ratings distinguishing moral from neutral scenarios.