Moral emotions are significantly more impaired than emotions without moral content in those with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). By contrast, those with Alzheimer's disease exhibit similar performance in both moral and extra-moral emotions as healthy subjects. The findings provide a novel biomarker for the diagnosis of FTD.
As robots become more autonomous, people will regard them as more responsible for accidental wrongdoing.
A new study reports genetics, in addition to environmental factors, influence morals and some personal behaviors in adults.
According to researchers, when faced with high stakes decision making tasks, people are more likely to lose sight of personal morality, leading to more cheating and less charitable efforts.
Researchers shed light on how people decide whether certain behaviors are moral or immoral.
A new study reports our cognitive flexibility in judging those who wrong us may shed light on both the human tendency to forgive, and explain why people hold on to those who continue to wrong them.
Researchers report truth is key to normal human interactions and consider how society might be losing its sense of shared reality.
Researchers say lying in childhood is normal and an important sign that a child's cognitive skills are developing.
Researchers say prevalence induced concept changes cause people to redefine problems as they are reduced.
A new study contradicts conventional assumptions that belief in free will is tied to a person's moral behavior. Researchers say free will may promote moral behavior in specific contexts, but it is not indicative of moral behavior overall.
UCLA researchers investigated how the brain responds when people watch other experience painful events. The study reports neural responses predict whether people will be inclined to avoid causing harm to others when faced with moral dilemmas.
According to researchers, familial relationships in movies affect the reactions in the viewer's brain to moral dilemma addressed between characters.