Neural correlates of individual differences in moral judgment competence
K Prehn, I Wartenburger, K Mériau, C Scheibe, O Goodenough, A Villringer, E van der Meer, H Heekeren · Klinische Neurophysiologie · 2006 · Heft 03
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Zusammenfassung
Normative judgment – the evaluation of actions with respect to social norms and values – entails a number of processes represented by a distributed network of brain regions. People differ with respect to their competence to make moral judgments. In this study we investigated how individual differences in this domain modulate neural correlates of simple normative judgments. Sentences including violations of social norms and grammatical rules were presented visually in a mixed blocked/ event-related design. Social norm violations were designed not to create emotional arousal. 23 participants decided whether senten…
