Empathy mediates the effects of age and sex on altruistic moral decision making
Moral decision making involves affective and cognitive functions like emotional empathy, reasoning and cognitive empathy/theory of mind (ToM), which are discussed to be subject to age-related alterations. Additionally, sex differences in moral decision making have been reported. However, age-related...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00067/full |