TDCS Over DLPFC Leads to Less Utilitarian Response in Moral-Personal Judgment.

ABSTRACT: The profound nature of moral judgment has been discussed and debated for centuries. When facing the trade-off between pursuing moral rights and seeking better consequences, most people make different moral choices between two kinds of dilemmas. Such differences were explained by the dual-process theory involving an automatic emotional response and a controlled application of utilitarian decision-rules. In neurocognitive studies, the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been demonstrated to play an important role in cognitive "rational" control processes in moral dilemmas. However, the profile of results across studies is not entirely consistent. Although one transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study revealed that disrupting the right DLPFC led to less utilitarian respon

SUBMITTER: Zheng H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879123 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature