Publication: The neural mediators of moral attitudes and behaviors
| dc.creator | Chen, Chenyi;Martinez, Roger Marcelo;Chen, Yu-Chun;Fan, Yang-Teng;Cheng, Yawei | |
| dc.date | 2022-07-26 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-03T03:51:38Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-27T07:12:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-03T03:51:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-11-03T03:51:38Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Morality is central for humanity. It has been suggested that our memories of past events involving moral actions contribute to shaping a positive view of the self. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how individual variability in moral attitudes fosters/affects moral behaviors. Here, we used a button-trigger task, where participants mentally simulated themselves as the agents of moral and immoral behaviors (study 1: N = 96). Helping actions appeared to have significantly faster reaction times (RTs) than neutral and harming actions. We also measured the fMRI activity while undergoing such moral actions in another sample (study 2: N = 117). Individual variability among implicit social attitudes (sIAT) predicted quicker RTs for helping actions, and explicit justice sensitivity (JSI) predicted higher warm-glow ratings for helping. Furthermore, the orbitofrontal cortex mediated sIAT-RTs association, while the right temporoparietal junction mediated the JSI-warm-glow linkage. These findings support the dynamic system framework of moral cognition, providing key knowledge on the neural underpinnings regarding individual variability on moral attitudes. | |
| dc.format.extent | 177 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | text/html | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0166-4328 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.ntus.edu.tw/handle/987654321/64829 | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER | |
| dc.relation | BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH, 430 | |
| dc.subject | Morality; Helping behavior; Justice sensitivity; Implicit attitudes; Warm-glow | |
| dc.title | The neural mediators of moral attitudes and behaviors | |
| dc.type | article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |