Lecture 24 - fall 2019, professor malle PDF

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10/09/2018: READING – An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment, Greene et al (2001) Background: The difference between trolley dilemma and footbridge dilemma lies in the latter’s tendency to engage people’s emotions in the way that the former does not thought of pushing someone to his death is more emotionally salient than the thought of hitting a switch Some moral dilemmas engage emotionally processing to a greater extent than others and these differences affect judgment Data: Medial frontal gyrus (BA 9 & 10), posterior cingulate gyrus (BA 31), and bilateral angular gyrus (BA 39) were more active in moral-personal condition than moralimpersonal and non-moral conditions – these areas are associated with emotion Areas associated with memory were less active during emotional processing as compared to periods of cognitive processing Right middle frontal gyrus (BA 46) and bilateral parietal lobe (BA 7/40) – associated with working memory – significantly less active in moral-personal condition than other two conditions; no difference in moral-impersonal and non-moral condition Responses of “appropriate” (emotionally incongruent) were significantly slower than responses of “inappropriate” (emotionally congruent) within moral-personal condition; data exhibited opposite trend (longer responses of “inappropriate” (emotionally congruent) in moral-impersonal and non-moral conditions

Conclusion: All areas showing increased relative activation in moral-personal condition have been implicated in emotional processing, and the reaction time pattern is unique to the condition, suggesting that there is more emotional engagement in moral-personal conditioning Increased emotional responses generated by the moral-personal dilemmas have an influence on and are not merely incidental to moral judgment Judgments concerning “impersonal” moral dilemmas more closely resemble judgment concerning non-moral dilemmas than they do judgments concerning “personal” moral dilemmas Conclusion is descriptive rather than prescriptive

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