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Experience of agency and sense of responsibility

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An enhanced binding of effects back towards the actions that caused them, implying an enhanced sense of agency, in moral compared to non-moral contexts is found.
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This article is published in Consciousness and Cognition.The article was published on 2011-12-01. It has received 114 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sense of agency & Agency (philosophy).

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Sense of agency in continuous action is influenced by outcome feedback in one-back trials.

TL;DR: The findings indicated that SoA was not produced by a mere sum of the prospective and retrospective factors, but rather that these factors independently influenced SoA with differential time courses.

The role of metacognition in human social

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that explicit metacognition is a uniquely human ability that has evolved through its enhancement of collaborative decision-making, and that it can also be applied to others, in which case it is known as mentalizing.
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Impaired self-agency inferences in schizophrenia : The role of cognitive capacity and causal reasoning style

TL;DR: Whether neurocognitive functioning and self-serving bias (SSB) may explain abnormalities in patients’ agency inferences is examined and impairments in prime-basedagency inferences are shown, thereby replicating previous studies.
Dissertation

Prospective Sense of Agency: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms

Nura Sidarus
TL;DR: In this paper, the cognitive and neural mechanisms through which action selection processes can prospectively inform our sense of agency have been investigated, and a consistent reduction in SoA was found when action selection was disrupted, regardless of whether participants freely chose what to do, or followed an instruction.
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Morality in the flesh: on the link between bodily self-consciousness, moral identity and (dis)honest behaviour

TL;DR: The authors found that participants with high sense of ownership displayed high moral identity, which supports the notion that ownership is used to associate the self with positive characteristics, and high agency was associated with increased moral identity when sense of power is high.
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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume
TL;DR: Hume's early years and education is described in a treatise of human nature as discussed by the authors. But it is not a complete account of the early years of his life and education.
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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

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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