Neural correlates of conventional and harm/welfare-based moral decision-making.
The degree to which social norms are processed by a unitary system or dissociable systems remains debated. Much research on children's social-cognitive judgments has supported the distinction between 'moral' (harm/welfare-based) and 'conventional' norms. However, the extent to which these norms are...
| Publicado en: | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 1114 - 1129 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2017
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