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- Influence
An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment
- J. Greene, R. Sommerville, L. Nystrom, J. Darley, J. D. Cohen
- Psychology, Medicine
- Science
- 14 September 2001
The long-standing rationalist tradition in moral psychology emphasizes the role of reason in moral judgment. A more recent trend places increased emphasis on emotion. Although both reason and emotion… Expand
The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment
- J. Greene, L. Nystrom, Andrew D. Engell, J. Darley, J. Cohen
- Psychology, Medicine
- Neuron
- 14 October 2004
Traditional theories of moral psychology emphasize reasoning and "higher cognition," while more recent work emphasizes the role of emotion. The present fMRI data support a theory of moral judgment… Expand
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
- David G. Rand, J. Greene, M. Nowak
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature
- 20 September 2012
Cooperation is central to human social behaviour. However, choosing to cooperate requires individuals to incur a personal cost to benefit others. Here we explore the cognitive basis of cooperative… Expand
How (and where) does moral judgment work?
Moral psychology has long focused on reasoning, but recent evidence suggests that moral judgment is more a matter of emotion and affective intuition than deliberate reasoning. Here we discuss recent… Expand
Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment
- J. Greene, Sylvia A. Morelli, K. Lowenberg, L. Nystrom, J. Cohen
- Psychology, Medicine
- Cognition
- 1 June 2008
Traditional theories of moral development emphasize the role of controlled cognition in mature moral judgment, while a more recent trend emphasizes intuitive and emotional processes. Here we test a… Expand
Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation.
- David G. Rand, Alexander Peysakhovich, +4 authors J. Greene
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature communications
- 3 April 2014
Cooperation is central to human societies. Yet relatively little is known about the cognitive underpinnings of cooperative decision making. Does cooperation require deliberate self-restraint? Or is… Expand
Why are VMPFC patients more utilitarian? A dual-process theory of moral judgment explains
- J. Greene
- Psychology, Medicine
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 August 2007
Koenigs, Young and colleagues [1] recently tested patients with emotion-related damage in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) using moral dilemmas used in previous neuroimaging studies [2,3].… Expand
Pushing moral buttons: The interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgment
- J. Greene, F. Cushman, Lisa Stewart, K. Lowenberg, J. Cohen
- Medicine, Psychology
- Cognition
- 1 June 2009
In some cases people judge it morally acceptable to sacrifice one person's life in order to save several other lives, while in other similar cases they make the opposite judgment. Researchers have… Expand
Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in God.
- A. Shenhav, David G. Rand, J. Greene
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of experimental psychology. General
- 1 August 2012
Some have argued that belief in God is intuitive, a natural (by-)product of the human mind given its cognitive structure and social context. If this is true, the extent to which one believes in God… Expand
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