Negative emotionality downregulation affects moral choice but not moral judgement of harm: a pharmacological study.

ABSTRACT: Previous neuroscientific research has expounded on the fundamental role played by emotion during moral decision-making. Negative emotionality has been observed to exert a general inhibitory effect towards harmful behaviors against others. Nevertheless, the downregulation of negative affects at different levels of moral processing (e.g. impersonal versus personal moral dilemmas) alongside its possible interactions with other factors (e.g. perspective taking) hasn't been directly assessed; both of which can assist in predicting future moral decision-making. In the present research, we empirically test (Study 1, N = 41) whether downregulating negative emotionality through pharmacological interventions using lorazepam (a GABA receptor agonist), modulate the permissibility of harm to others -i.

SUBMITTER: Martinez RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10786834 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature