Beta adrenergic blockade reduces utilitarian judgement.
Sylvia Terbeck,Guy Kahane,S.F.B. McTavish,Julian Savulescu,Neil Levy,Miles Hewstone,Philip J. Cowen +6 more
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The beta-adrenoceptor antagonist propranolol affected responses to moral dilemmas and reduced the willingness to endorse utilitarian solutions involving harm, and reduced heart rate and response times, and increased decisiveness.About:
This article is published in Biological Psychology.The article was published on 2013-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 30 citations till now.read more
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Beyond therapy: biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness
TL;DR: A livro expoe, de maneira didatica, temas that vao desde o periodo neonatal e ao longo da primeira deca-da ate a adolescencia, incluindo aspectos emergenciais e tambem de carater predominantemente ambulatorial, assim oferecendo a leitor uma revisao relativamente ra-pida, porem profunda, dos diferentes topicos relativos a Neurologia Infantil as discussed by the authors.
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The drunk utilitarian: blood alcohol concentration predicts utilitarian responses in moral dilemmas.
TL;DR: Alcohol holds promise in clarifying the above debate because it impairs both social cognition and higher-order executive functioning and the direction of the association between alcohol and utilitarian vs. non-utilitarian responding should inform the relative importance of both deliberative and social processing systems in influencing utilitarian preference.
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The Moral Brain: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Jean Decety,Thalia Wheatley +1 more
TL;DR: The contributors address the evolution of morality, considering precursors of human morality in other species as well as uniquely human adaptations, and examine motivations for morality, exploring the roles of passion, extreme sacrifice, and cooperation.
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Hippocampal Damage Increases Deontological Responses during Moral Decision Making.
TL;DR: It is found that patients with selective bilateral hippocampal damage show a strikingly opposite response pattern to those with vmPFC damage when making moral judgements, providing new insights into the processes involved in moral decision making and highlighting the complementary roles played by two closely connected brain regions.
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Noradrenaline effects on social behaviour, intergroup relations, and moral decisions
TL;DR: This article summarizes psychopharmacological and fMRI research on the role of noradrenaline in higher order social cognition suggesting that indeednoradrenergic mediated affective changes might play key - and probably causal - role in certain social attitudes and moral judgments.
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The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment.
TL;DR: The author gives 4 reasons for considering the hypothesis that moral reasoning does not cause moral judgment; rather, moral reasoning is usually a post hoc construction, generated after a judgment has been reached.
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An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment
Joshua D. Greene,R. Brian Sommerville,Leigh E. Nystrom,John M. Darley,Jonathan D. Cohen,Jonathan D. Cohen +5 more
TL;DR: It is argued that moral dilemmas vary systematically in the extent to which they engage emotional processing and that these variations in emotional engagement influence moral judgment.
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The neural bases of cognitive conflict and control in moral judgment.
TL;DR: The present results indicate that brain regions associated with abstract reasoning and cognitive control are recruited to resolve difficult personal moral dilemmas in which utilitarian values require "personal" moral violations, violations that have previously been associated with increased activity in emotion-related brain regions.
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Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
Michael Koenigs,Liane Young,Ralph Adolphs,Ralph Adolphs,Daniel Tranel,Fiery Cushman,Marc D. Hauser,Antonio R. Damasio,Antonio R. Damasio +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that six patients with focal bilateral damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), a brain region necessary for the normal generation of emotions, produce an abnormally ‘utilitarian’ pattern of judgements on moral dilemmas that pit compelling considerations of aggregate welfare against highly emotionally aversive behaviours.
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Beta-adrenergic activation and memory for emotional events.
TL;DR: The impairment of propranolol on memory of the emotional story was not due either to reduced emotional responsiveness or to nonspecific sedative or attentional effects, which support the hypothesis that enhanced memory associated with emotional experiences involves activation of the β-adrenergic system.