Key Concepts
This "pickle" leaves the subject where every course of action breaches a moral principle.
What is a moral dilemma?
What is the first two years of life?
This subcortical structure is essential for moral learning.
What is the amygdala?
This part of the brain is activated when evaluating moral dilemmas and is associated with understanding emotions and social cognition.
What is the superior temporal sulcus?
This cortex of the brain is considered the social one.
What is the medial prefrontal cortex?
"You are debating buying lunch at Centro, the food is iffy but you are hungry," is an example of one.
What is a non-moral dilemma?
Activity in this cortex typically indicates a more emotional judgement.
What is the ventromedial prefrontal cortex?
This subcortical structure is activated during charitable contributions and is located in the limbic system.
What is the septum?
This brain region becomes more active after making a decision, especially during utilitarian choices, suggesting its role in processing complex moral conflicts
What is the anterior/middle temporal gyrus?
This is the time white-lie telling behaviour starts emerging.
What are the ages 3 to 7?
This categorization describes when the subject is not directly involved in the outcome.
What is a impersonal categorization?
This cortex is responsible for integrating the emotions of the actors when deciding a moral judgement.
What is the anterior cingulate cortex?
Activated during altruistic punishment and the evaluation of morally salient stimuli, this brain region is part of the brain's reward system.
What is the caudate nucleus?
This brain area is involved in moral intuition, quickly directing our attention to situations that might have ethical significance, like a person in distress.
What is the temporo-parietal junction?
In the mentioned study, the Theory of Mind is most correlated with this part of the brain.
What is the right temporo-parietal junction?
Not the problem but the answer.
What is a moral judgement?
This cortex is theorized to contain two competing cortices what determine emotional/utilitarian ideals.
What is the orbitofrontal cortex?
This subcortical structure, crucial for fear conditioning, also facilitates appropriate emotional reactions and is involved in self-related processing during social emotions
What is the caudate nucleus?
This part of the brain is crucial for theory of mind and is affected by transcranial magnetic stimulation during moral judgment tasks.
What is the right temporo-parietal junction?
These are the two benefits of pareto (white) lies relative to dishonest ones.
What are the outcomes of triggering genuine care and concern about the benefits others receive, and justifying dishonesty that will benefit oneself.
This ideal is typically pitted against emotional justifications.
What is utilitarianism or logic?
Patients with this type of lesion were more likely to endorse utilitarian responses.
What is a ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesion?
This brain region is mainly associated with working memory and cognitive control, recruited during moral processing, and involved in perceiving social information for making inferences about others' beliefs and intentions.
What is the inferior parietal region?
Associated with emotional processing and detecting norm violations, this brain region is particularly active in deontological judgment, focusing on the adherence to rules or duties.
What is the insular cortex?
These three subregions of the medial prefrontal cortex serve a crucial role in moral judgement and the generation of dishonest behaviour.
What are the dorsomedial PFC, subgenual ACC, and ventromedial PFC?