At the heart of morality lies neuro-visceral integration: lower cardiac vagal tone predicts utilitarian moral judgment
To not harm others is widely considered the most basic element of human morality. The aversion to harm others can be either rooted in the outcomes of an action (utilitarianism) or reactions to the action itself (deontology). We speculated that the human moral judgments rely on the integration of neu...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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