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The Moral Brain: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

The Moral Brain: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Decety, Jean
Wheatley, Thalia

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0262534584
ISBN13: 9780262534581
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 8 2017
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.

Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand human moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms shaped through evolution, development, and culture. Evolutionary biologists have shown that moral cognition evolved to aid cooperation; developmental psychologists have demonstrated that the elements that underpin morality are in place much earlier than we thought; and social neuroscientists have begun to map brain circuits implicated in moral decision making. This volume offers an overview of current research on the moral brain, examining the topic from disciplinary perspectives that range from anthropology and neurophilosophy to justice and law.

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