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SUBMITTER: Molenberghs P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4590538 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molenberghs Pascal P Ogilvie Claudette C Louis Winnifred R WR Decety Jean J Bagnall Jessica J Bain Paul G PG
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20150309 10
Despite moral prohibitions on hurting other humans, some social contexts allow for harmful actions such as killing of others. One example is warfare, where killing enemy soldiers is seen as morally justified. Yet, the neural underpinnings distinguishing between justified and unjustified killing are largely unknown. To improve understanding of the neural processes involved in justified and unjustified killing, participants had to imagine being the perpetrator whilst watching 'first-person perspec ...[more]