Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions

Intentional harms are typically judged to be morally worse than accidental harms. Distinguishing between intentional harms and accidents depends on the capacity for mental state reasoning (i.e., reasoning about beliefs and intentions), which is supported by a group of brain regions including the rig...

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Main Authors: Koster-Hale, Jorie (Contributor), Saxe, Rebecca R. (Contributor), Dungan, James (Author), Young, Liane L. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2013-10-03T16:54:25Z.
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