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Infection, Incest, and Iniquity: Investigating the Neural Correlates of Disgust and Morality

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Périodique : Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Numéros : vol. 20, nº 9, ISSN 0898-929X (Imprimé), ISSN 1530-8898 (En ligne)
Dates : Date de publication: 09/2008
Etendue : pp. 1529-1546
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Infection, Incest, and Iniquity: Investigating the Neural Correlates of Disgust and Morality

Résumé :

Disgust, an emotion related to avoiding harmful substances, has been linked to moral judgments in many behavioral studies. However, the fact that participants report feelings of disgust when thinking about feces and a heinous crime does not necessarily indicate that the same mechanisms mediate these reactions. Humans might instead have separate neural and physiological systems guiding aversive behaviors and judgments across different domains. The present interdisciplinary study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (n = 50) and behavioral assessment to investigate the biological homology of pathogen-related and moral disgust. We provide evidence that pathogen-related and sociomoral acts entrain many common as well as unique brain networks. We also investigated whether morality itself is composed of distinct neural and behavioral subdomains. We provide evidence that, despite their tendency to elicit similar ratings of moral wrongness, incestuous and nonsexual immoral acts entrain dramatically separate, while still overlapping, brain networks. These results (i) provide support for the view that the biological response of disgust is intimately tied to immorality, (ii) demonstrate that there are at least three separate domains of disgust, and (iii) suggest strongly that morality, like disgust, is not a unified psychological or neurological phenomenon.

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Cognitive Neuroscience

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Langue : anglais
Numéro de fiche : 1353
Source : CrossRef
Type de fiche : Article de périodique
Création : 04/05/2018
Dernière modification : 16/11/2018
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