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SUBMITTER: Crockett MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5462090 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Crockett Molly J MJ Siegel Jenifer Z JZ Kurth-Nelson Zeb Z Dayan Peter P Dolan Raymond J RJ
Nature neuroscience 20170501 6
Moral systems universally prohibit harming others for personal gain. However, we know little about how such principles guide moral behavior. Using a task that assesses the financial cost participants ascribe to harming others versus themselves, we probed the relationship between moral behavior and neural representations of profit and pain. Most participants displayed moral preferences, placing a higher cost on harming others than themselves. Moral preferences correlated with neural responses to ...[more]