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Moral cognition is a complex process driven by moral judgments, decision-making, reasoning, emotion, and the heuristics, rationalizations, and biases that influence an individual’s moral behavior. These cognitions have distinct and sometimes opposing neural substrates as well as moderating substrates that can temper certain processes ( Greene et al., 2004 ).
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Moral dilemmas in cognitive neuroscience of moral...
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Moral cognition can be considered as a subset of social...
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Moral Cognition. Moral cognition is the study of the brain’s role in moral judgment and decision-making. As a social science, it involves understanding the rationalizations and biases that affect moral decision-making. Moral cognition also involves the scientific study of the brain that is evolving along with technology.
Jan 1, 2014 · Abstract. Research on moral cognition is a growing and heavily multidisciplinary field. This section contains chapters addressing foundational psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical issues of research on moral decision-making. Furthermore, beyond summarizing the state of the art of their respective fields, the authors formulate their ...
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Moral cognition can be considered as a subset of social cognition that focuses on the study of behavior involving moral values, which are rules that define what is good or bad within a society. Moral cognition shares with social cognition the description of processes engaged in the representations of others’ mental states, personal goals and social norms ( Van Bavel et al., 2015 ).
Moral cognition enables children, adolescents, and adults to make decisions about some of the most salient issues in contemporary human society, including how to distribute resources fairly, and how to challenge systems of bias and prejudice that perpetuate social inequities between groups.
Nov 4, 2017 · Moral cognition consists in using such codes to guide culturally adequate social behavior. Thus, moral cognition comprises all mental processes underlying our discernment of acceptable and inacceptable actions . Such broad construct encompasses different but interrelated subdomains, including moral sensitivity, moral reasoning, and moral judgment.
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Jan 18, 2019 · But also few would limit the moral phenomenon to objectively observable behavior. Moral action is seen, implicitly or explicitly, as complex, imbedded in a variety of feelings, questions, doubts, judgments, and decisions . . . . From this perspective, the study of the relations between moral cognition and moral action is of primary importance.
