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The moral brain [electronic resource] : a multidisciplinary perspective / edited by Jean Decety and Thalia Wheatley.

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"Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand human moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms shaped through evolution, development, and culture. Evolutionary biologists h...

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Online Access: Full Text (via MIT Press)
Other Authors: Decety, Jean (Editor), Wheatley, Thalia, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Series:Social neuroscience series.
Subjects:
Neurosciences > Social aspects.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Neuropsychology.
Table of Contents:
  • Evolution of morality
  • Motivations of morality
  • The development of morality
  • The affective and social neuroscience of morality
  • Psychopathic immorality
  • Considerations and implications for justice and law.
  • The evolution of morality : a comparative approach / Laurent Prétôt and Sarah Brosnan
  • Adaptationist approaches to moral psychology / Andrew W. Delton and Max M. Krasnow
  • Partner choice and the evolution of a contractualist morality / Nicolas Baumard and Mark Sheskin
  • Is the Moral Brain Ever Dispassionate? / Jesse Prinz
  • Devoted actors and the moral foundations of intractable intergroup conflict / Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges
  • Why we cooperate / Jillian Jordan, Alexander Peysakhovich, and David G. Rand
  • The infantile origins of our moral brains / J. Kiley Hamlin
  • Mechanisms of moral development / Joshua Rottman and Liane Young
  • The neurocognitive development of moral judgments : the role of executive function / Ayelet Lahat
  • Girl uninterrupted : the neural basis of moral development among adolescent females / Abigail A. Baird and Emma V. Roellke
  • Neural correlates of human morality : an overview / Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Roland Zahn, and Jorge Moll
  • The cognitive neuroscience of moral judgment and decision making / Joshua D. Greene
  • Neuromodulators and the (in)stability of moral cognition / Molly J. Crockett and Regina A. Rini
  • Immorality in the adult brain / Rheanna J. Remmel and Andrea L. Glenn
  • The moral brain : psychopathology / Caroline Moul, David Hawes, and Mark Dadds
  • Neuroscience versus phenomenology and the implications for justice / Thalia Wheatley
  • The equivocal relationship between morality and empathy / Jean Decety and Jason M. Cowell.

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