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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Main Authors: Jan B. Rosen, Matthias eBrand, Elke eKalbe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
Sex
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00067/full