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The Moral Brain : A Multidisciplinary Perspective.

Decety, Jean.

The Moral Brain : A Multidisciplinary Perspective. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (338 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Evolution of Morality -- 1 The Evolution of Morality: A Comparative Approach -- 2 Adaptationist Approaches to Moral Psychology -- 3 Partner Choice and the Evolution of a Contractualist Morality -- II Motivations of Morality -- 4 Is the Moral Brain Ever Dispassionate? -- 5 Devoted Actors and the Moral Foundations of Intractable Intergroup Conflict -- 6 Why We Cooperate -- III The Development of Morality -- 7 The Infantile Origins of Our Moral Brains -- 8 Mechanisms of Moral Development -- 9 The Neurocognitive Development of Moral Judgments -- 10 Girl Uninterrupted -- IV The Affective and Social Neuroscience of Morality -- 11 Neural Correlates of Human Morality -- 12 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Judgment and Decision Making -- 13 Neuromodulators and the (In)stability of Moral Cognition -- V Psychopathic Immorality -- 14 Immorality in the Adult Brain -- 15 The Moral Brain -- VI Considerations and Implications for Justice and Law -- 16 Neuroscience versus Phenomenology and the Implications for Justice -- 17 The Equivocal Relationship between Morality and Empathy -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.

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Cognitive neuroscience.
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