Influence of the cortical midline structures on moral emotion and motivation in moral decision-making

Abstract

Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects:Predicting long-term outcomes of interventions using machine learning and computational simulation on the other hand, the posterior insula (PI) showed significant negative interaction with the seed regions. Second, several significant Granger causality was found from CMS to insula regions particularly under the moral-personal condition. Furthermore, significant dominant influence from the AI to PI was reported. Moral psychological implications of these findings are discussed.The present study demonstrated the significant interaction and influence between the CMS and morality-related regions while subject were solving moral dilemmas. Given that, activity in the CMS is significantly involved in human moral functioning.

Attainable and Relevant Moral Exemplars Are More Effective than Extraordinary Exemplars in Promoting Voluntary Service Engagement

“…Therefore, future studies should utilize more direct measurements, such as a classroom observation (Woodhead and Paulkner, 2000) or diary method (Conway and Briner, 2002; Pekrun et al, 2002; Boekaerts and Corno, 2005). In addition, possible options might include research methods focusing on the internal psychological processes of prosocial motivation and behavior, such as the functional and structural neuroimaging method (Kristjánsson, 2007; Han, 2014, 2016b; Han et al, 2016a). …”

“…Recent neuroscientific studies of morality support this point. The participants in these studies showed significant neural activity in brain regions associated with moral emotion and moral motivation when they were presented with concrete human beings, not conceptual situations (Greene et al, 2001, 2004; Han et al, 2014, 2016a). Thus, from the perspective of moral development, moral exemplars as moral models can significantly promote moral development, particularly the development of moral motivation and moral behavior.…”

How can neuroscience contribute to moral philosophy, psychology and education based on Aristotelian virtue ethics?

“…In addition, previous functional neuroimaging studies have consistently demonstrated that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which constitute the DMN, were significantly associated with prosocial and moral emotion and moral cognition Reniers et al 2012;Han et al 2014Han et al , 2016Sevinc and Spreng 2014). Given these findings, the DMN is the core of moral self, and the region of interest in virtue ethics and character psychology.…”

“…Previous social psychological works have shown that people may withdraw themselves from moral behaviour even when they made a sound moral judgment due to moral disengagement originating from the lack of the sense of responsibility (Bandura 1990(Bandura , 1999. Also, previous neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that a brain circuitry associated with self-agency and possibility the sense of responsibility was significantly activated in moral decision-making task conditions , and it significantly interacted with brain regions associated with moral judgment (Han et al 2016). Furthermore, a recent experiment demonstrated that the factor of intention influenced behavioural outcome on top of decision-making processes (Greene et al 2009); a neuroimaging study also found the neural correlates of intention judgment by setting the type of intention as an independent variable (Borg et al 2006).…”

Evaluating methods of correcting for multiple comparisons implemented in SPM12 in social neuroscience fMRI studies: an example from moral psychology

“…In the present study we reanalyzed previously collected fMRI data (Han, 2016;Han, Chen, Jeong, & Glover, 2016;. This fMRI data was obtained from 16 participants (8 male) who attended a Northern Californian university.…”