Neural evidence for "intuitive prosecution": The use of mental state information for negative moral verdicts
Moral judgment depends critically on theory of mind (ToM), reasoning about mental states such as beliefs and intentions. People assign blame for failed attempts to harm and offer forgiveness in the case of accidents. Here we use fMRI to investigate the role of ToM in moral judgment of harmful vs. he...
Main Authors: | Saxe, Rebecca R., Scholz, Jonathan, Young, Liane |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70035 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2377-1791 |
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