The Dark Side of Morality - Neural Mechanisms Underpinning Moral Convictions and Support for Violence.

ABSTRACT: People are motivated by shared social values that, when held with moral conviction, can serve as compelling mandates capable of facilitating support for ideological violence. The current study examined this dark side of morality by identifying specific cognitive and neural mechanisms associated with beliefs about the appropriateness of sociopolitical violence, and determining the extent to which the engagement of these mechanisms was predicted by moral convictions. Participants reported their moral convictions about a variety of sociopolitical issues prior to undergoing functional MRI scanning. During scanning, they were asked to evaluate the appropriateness of violent protests that were ostensibly congruent or incongruent with their views about sociopolitical issues. Complementary univari

SUBMITTER: Workman CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7939028 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature