Action Modulates the Conscious Reasoning Process of Moral Judgment: Evidence From Behavior and Neurophysiology.

ABSTRACT: Moral judgment can be highly affected by the action and intention factors on a behavior level. Previous neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that the intention factor can modulate both the affective and cognitive processing of moral judgment. The present event-related potentials (ERP) study examined how the action factor modulated the neural dynamics of moral judgment under a newly developed moral dilemma paradigm including three different conditions: harm caused by action (i.e., doing harm), harm caused by omission (i.e., allowing harm), and no harm. Behavior data showed that participants preferred utilitarian judgments and spent less time on the allowing harm condition than for the doing harm condition. ERP results revealed that, compared with the doing harm and no harm dilemmas, the a

SUBMITTER: Leng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7815760 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature