The neuroscience of moral cognition: from dual processes to dynamic systems

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An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment

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The self-importance of moral identity

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The neural basis of economic decision-making in the Ultimatum Game.

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The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment

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How (and where) does moral judgment work?

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The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment

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Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements

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Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment

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Crime and punishment: Distinguishing the roles of causal and intentional analyses in moral judgment

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The neural basis of human moral cognition

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Social judgment and social memory: The role of cue diagnosticity in negativity, positivity, and extremity biases.

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Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation

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Moral psychology is relationship regulation: Moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality.

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Moral character predominates in person perception and evaluation.

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A Meta-analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Self- and Other Judgments Reveals a Spatial Gradient for Mentalizing in Medial Prefrontal Cortex

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The Link between Social Cognition and Self-referential Thought in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

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The Neuroscience of Social Decision-Making

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On the Dominance of Moral Categories in Impression Formation

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Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game

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A schematic model of dispositional attribution in interpersonal perception.

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Pushing moral buttons: The interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgment

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The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment

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Focalism: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

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Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments

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Focalism: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

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Morality and competence in person- and self-perception

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Value computations in ventral medial prefrontal cortex during charitable decision making incorporate input from regions involved in social cognition

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moral heuristics

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Affective state and decision-making in the Ultimatum Game

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Proscriptive versus prescriptive morality: Two faces of moral regulation.

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Selective deficit in personal moral judgment following damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex

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The Social Dimension of Stress Reactivity

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Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisions

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The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment

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On the Importance of Being Moral: The Distinctive Role of Morality in Social Judgment

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The roots of modern justice: cognitive and neural foundations of social norms and their enforcement

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Empathic concern drives costly altruism

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A Person-Centered Approach to Moral Judgment

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The iterative reprocessing model: A multilevel framework for attitudes and evaluation

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The Role of the Human Prefrontal Cortex in Social Cognition and Moral Judgment

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What we say and what we do: The relationship between real and hypothetical moral choices

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Linking Brain Structure and Activation in Temporoparietal Junction to Explain the Neurobiology of Human Altruism

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Where in the brain is morality? Everywhere and maybe nowhere

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A Distinct Role of the Temporal-Parietal Junction in Predicting Socially Guided Decisions

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The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise

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Moral Hypocrisy

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Forming impressions of people versus inanimate objects: Social-cognitive processing in the medial prefrontal cortex

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Moral cognition and its neural constituents

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The speed of morality: a high-density electrical neuroimaging study

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An fMRI Investigation of Spontaneous Mental State Inference for Moral Judgment

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Moral Reasoning: Hints and Allegations

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Functional Interactions as Big Data in the Human Brain

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Neural correlates of anchoring-and-adjustment during mentalizing

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Hypothetical and Real Choice Differentially Activate Common Valuation Areas

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Is Morality Unified? Evidence that Distinct Neural Systems Underlie Moral Judgments of Harm, Dishonesty, and Disgust

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Effects of information content and evaluative extremity on positivity and negativity biases.

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Dissociable brain networks involved in development of fairness considerations: understanding intentionality behind unfairness

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The neural dynamics of updating person impressions

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Financial deprivation selectively shifts moral standards and compromises moral decisions

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Disrupting the right prefrontal cortex alters moral judgement

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Chapter 8 Moral Identity, Moral Functioning, and the Development of Moral Character

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Diagnostic Value Underlies Asymmetric Updating of Impressions in the Morality and Ability Domains

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The moral pop-out effect: Enhanced perceptual awareness of morally relevant stimuli

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Differential neural circuitry and self-interest in realvshypothetical moral decisions

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Fairness violations elicit greater punishment on behalf of another than for oneself

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Liberating Reason From the Passions

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The Importance of Moral Construal: Moral versus Non-Moral Construal Elicits Faster, More Extreme, Universal Evaluations of the Same Actions

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Evaluation is a Dynamic Process: Moving Beyond Dual System Models

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TMS affects moral judgment, showing the role of DLPFC and TPJ in cognitive and emotional processing

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Deconstructing the brain’s moral network: dissociable functionality between the temporoparietal junction and ventro-medial prefrontal cortex

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Neural dissociations between meaningful and mere inconsistency in impression updating

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Shared Perceptions

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Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

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Attentional capture helps explain why moral and emotional content go viral.

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How does mindfulness training improve moral cognition: a theoretical and experimental framework for the study of embodied ethics

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The concept of the moral domain in moral foundations theory and cognitive developmental theory: Horses for courses?

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Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions

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Morality and Psychology: A Conceptual Study of the Intersectional Relationship

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Medical ethics, moral philosophy and moral tradition

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The Social Psychology of the Moral Identity

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