Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Naturalistic narrative listening reveals a core brain network for detecting moral information

The paper identifies a core brain network for detecting moral content using fMRI data from naturalistic narrative listening.

Sex-specific associations of estradiol and instrumental harm with moral decision-making

The paper investigates sex-specific effects of estradiol and instrumental harm on moral decision-making, finding no behavioral differences between women and men but associations between estradiol and moral sensitivity.

The Moral Brain in Context: Political Orientation, Empathy, and Evaluation of Everyday Behavior

This study examines how political orientation and empathy influence moral judgments and neural responses to everyday behaviors in ecologically valid contexts.

Intracranial Insights into the Developing Neural Basis of Moral Punishment

The paper investigates the developing neural circuits of third-party punishment using intracranial SEEG in children and adults, finding age-related differences in brain activity and connectivity.

A Libra in the Brain: Neural Correlates of Error Awareness Predict Moral Wrongness and Guilt Proneness

The paper examines how neural correlates of error awareness predict moral wrongness and guilt proneness using EEG and MRI data from participants simulating moral and immoral actions.

"Fire! Do Not Fire!": A new paradigm testing how autonomous systems affect agency and moral decision-making.

The paper presents a trolley-like dilemma experiment to study how autonomous systems influence moral decision-making and human agency.

Rotten to the core - a neurofunctional signature of subjective core disgust generalizes to oral distaste and socio-moral contexts

The paper develops a neurofunctional signature of disgust using fMRI and machine learning, showing it generalizes across core disgust, gustatory distaste, and socio-moral contexts.

To praise or to blame? Neural signals predict divergent responses to moral hypocrisy.

The paper examines how observers respond to moral hypocrisy by analyzing behavioral and neural data, finding that hypocrisy is sometimes praised and linked to specific brain activity patterns.

The sensitivity of third party punishment to the framing effect and its brain mechanism

The paper investigates how framing a norm violation affects third-party punishment and identifies brain regions involved in this effect.

Disentangling principled and opportunistic motives for reacting to injustice: A genetically-informed exploration of justice sensitivity

The paper investigates genetic influences on principled and opportunistic justice sensitivity using twin data, identifying two heritable traits linked to different moral motivations.

Wasting food is disgusting: Evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging study of moral judgment of food-wasting behavior

The paper investigates moral judgments of food-wasting behavior using behavioral and neuroimaging data, finding that food-wasting is seen as morally wrong and linked to disgust.

Neural signatures of model-free learning when avoiding harm to self and other

The paper investigates neural mechanisms of model-free learning in moral decision-making, finding that model-free learning prioritizes avoiding harm to others over self and involves specific brain regions.

The Role of Emotions in Moral Judgments: Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials

This study uses ERPs to show that moral context modulates neural responses to neutral faces, with early and agency-related effects, and explicit ratings distinguishing moral from neutral scenarios.