From moral to legal judgment: the influence of normative context in lawyers and other academics
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Various kinds of normative judgments are an integral part of everyday life. We extended the scrutiny of social cognitive neuroscience into the domain of legal decisions, investigating two groups, lawyers and other academics, during moral and legal decision-making. While we found activation of brain areas comprising the so-called 'moral brain' in both conditions, there was stronger activation in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and middle temporal gyrus particularly when subjects made legal decisions, suggesting that these were made in respect to more explicit rules and demanded more complex semantic processing. Comparing both groups, our data show that behaviorally lawyers conceived themselves as emotionally less involved during normative decision-making in general. A group × condition interaction in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex suggests a modulation of normative decision-making by attention based on subjects' normative expertise.
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People can view relatively mundane stimuli as having moral value, and construal can change evaluation.
“These studies not only suggest that people can view relatively mundane stimuli as having moral value, but that construal can change the evaluation [46].”
From The Importance of Moral Construal: Moral versus Non-Moral Construal Elicits Faster, More Extreme, Universal Evaluations of the Same Actions (2012) · cites this paper as [46]
The Experimental design section says participants judged the same target stories from moral or legal perspectives, and the Behavioral results section reports different endorsement rates across those conditions. This supports the claim that framing changed evaluation. It does not establish that relatively mundane stimuli were viewed as having moral value: the everyday-life stories were neutral controls, separate from the moral and legal target stories. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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- Authors
- Schleim, S., Spranger, T. M., Erk, S., & Walter, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Groningen (NL)
- University of Bonn (DE)
- Venue
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2010-03-01
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 48-57
- ISSN
- 1749-5016 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-5024
- PMC
- PMC3023080
- OpenAlex
- W2143593174
- Cited by
- 66
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 3.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Volkswagen Foundation (80 777)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01GP0804)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Keywords
- moral judgment, legal judgment, normative decision making, lawyers, legal expertise, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, middle temporal gyrus, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, emotional engagement, semantic processing, attention
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cues, Decision Making, Educational Status, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Judgment, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Morals, Oxygen, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Reference Values, Social Behavior, Case-Control Studies, Lawyers
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