An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment
An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment
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DOI：
10.1126/science.1062872
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发表时间：
2001-09-14
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56.9
通讯作者：
Cohen, JD
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作者：
Greene, JD;Sommerville, RB;Cohen, JD
道德心理学中长期存在的理性主义传统强调道德判断中的理性作用。最近的一个趋势是越来越强调情感。尽管理性和情感都可能在道德判断中发挥重要作用，但人们对它们的神经关联、相互作用的性质以及在道德判断中调节它们各自行为影响的因素所知相对较少。在两个以道德困境为探针的功能磁共振成像（fMRI）研究中，我们将认知神经科学的方法应用于道德判断的研究。我们认为，道德困境在参与情绪处理的程度上有系统的变化，而这些情绪参与的变化会影响道德判断。这些结果可能会对当代哲学家观察到的一些令人困惑的道德判断模式有所启发。
The long-standing rationalist tradition in moral psychology emphasizes the rote of reason in moral judgment. A more recent trend places increased emphasis on emotion. Although both reason and emotion are likely to play important roles in moral judgment, relatively tittle is known about their neural correlates, the nature of their interaction, and the factors that modulate their respective behavioral influences in the context of moral judgment. In two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using moral dilemmas as probes, we apply the methods of cognitive neuroscience to the study of moral judgment. We argue that moral dilemmas vary systematically in the extent to which they engage emotional processing and that these variations in emotional engagement influence moral judgment. These results may shed light on some puzzling patterns in moral judgment observed by contemporary philosophers.