Sacred values: Trade-off type matters.

Duc, Christophe; Hanselmann, Martin; Boesiger, Peter; Tanner, Carmen

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“…Thus, the IFG could provide input that represents semantic rules, which specifically in high cost situations need to be retrieved in order to incline participants towards honesty irrespective of consequences. In agreement with the proposed role of the IFG, activation in the IFG has been found to be stronger when individuals refuse to accept money for a change in their previously reported moral views compared to when they accept 46 (see also 47 ). Our results reveal that the DLPFC-IFG and the DMPFC-IFG connectivity in individuals with strong honesty-related values is enhanced specifically when high economic costs are involved and thus strong control mechanisms are needed to protect the honesty-related values.…”

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Prefrontal connections express individual differences in intrinsic resistance to trading off honesty values against economic benefits

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Morishima

Heise

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Individuals differ profoundly when they decide whether to tell the truth or to be dishonest, particularly in situations where moral motives clash with economic motives, i.e., when truthfulness comes at a monetary cost. These differences should be expressed in the decision network, particularly in prefrontal cortex. However, the interactions between the core players of the decision network during honesty-related decisions involving trade-offs with economic costs remain poorly understood. To investigate brain connectivity patterns associated with individual differences in responding to economic costs of truthfulness, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging and measured brain activations, while participants made decisions concerning honesty. We found that in participants who valued honesty highly, dorsolateral and dorsomedial parts of prefrontal cortex were more tightly coupled with the inferior frontal cortex when economic costs were high compared to when they were low. Finer-grained analysis revealed that information flow from the inferior frontal cortex to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and bidirectional information flow between the inferior frontal cortex and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex was associated with a reduced tendency to trade off honesty for economic benefits. Our findings provide a novel account of the neural circuitry that underlies honest decisions in the face of economic temptations.

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Prefrontal connections express individual differences in intrinsic resistance to trading off honesty values against economic benefits

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“…These values often lead individuals to behave as “devoted actors,” following a rule‐bound logic to do what is right regardless of risks or rewards, rather than a utilitarian logic of costs and benefits (Atran, ; Bennis, Medin, & Bartels, ). FMRI studies also show that sacred values activate regions of the brain that help process deontic rules, including the temporoparietal junction and anterior temporal lobe (Berns et al, ; Duc, Hanselmann, Boesiger, & Tanner, ; Kaplan et al, ). These findings indicate that sacred values are linked to deontological processing, which suggests that morally convicted attitudes are as well, although this connection remains to be tested.…”

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Fired Up by Morality: The Unique Physiological Response Tied to Moral Conviction in Politics

Garrett

2018

Political Psychology

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Studies provide mounting evidence that morally convicted attitudes elicit passionate and unyielding political responses. Questions remain, however, whether these effects occur because moral conviction is another strong, versus a distinctly moral dimension of attitude strength. Building on work in moral psychology and neuroscience, I argue that moral conviction stems from a distinctive mode of mental processing that is tied to automatic affective reactions. Testing this idea using a lab experiment designed to capture self‐reported moral conviction and physiological arousal, I find that conviction about political objects positively predicts arousal evoked by the objects, while attitude extremity and importance do not. These findings suggest that moral conviction items do tap into moral processing, helping to validate the conviction measure. They also illustrate the value of using physiological indicators to study politics, help explain why morally convicted attitudes trigger such fervent responses, and raise normative questions about political conflict and compromise.

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“…The self-reported response of anger and moral outrage previously shown to accompany taboo proposals has recently also been shown to correspond to activation in the left anterior temporal lobe and bilateral amygdalae-areas associated with rule-based processing and emotion. This activation also correlated with moral disgust ratings ( Duc et al 2013 ). Importantly, this activation did not occur for tragic or routine SV trade-offs.…”

Section: Sacred Valuesmentioning

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Handbook of International Negotiation

Galluccio¹

2015

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contributor Mauro Galluccio's present volume appears to fi ll in an existing and ever more visible void in shaping an entirely new approach in modern-day diplomacy. The signifi cance of this book can hardly be over-rated. It offers an entirely new political and psychological angle to transforming confl ict by managing interpersonal dynamics and tailoring preventive behaviors. It alerts us to the crucial role of the mental heritage of confl icts and powerful emotions. In brief, it enhances an entirely new type of negotiation as a fundamental tool of managing, preventing, and resolving confl ict by acknowledging the diversity of mental viewpoints about any given reality.This volume can indeed serve as a handbook to practitioners-diplomats and decision-makers-in educating themselves, in reshaping their own outlook, and in even bettering themselves as individuals in positions of authority and responsibility for bringing positive change to the lives of millions of people. Elena Poptodorova Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United StatesGalluccio has brought together a distinguished and diverse group of scholars and practitioners to address an enduring, if evolving, challenge to human wellbeing: violent confl ict between nations and subnational groups. His aim is to organize the interdisciplinary character of the research, on which the authors draw, into coherent perspectives on the causes of confl icts and potentially effective interventions designed to prevent and resolve them.There is much that is new here. Perhaps most important, there is a focus on the personal and emotional character of confl ict-for those who engage in it and those who intervene to mitigate it.

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Sacred values: Trade-off type matters.

Cited by 14 publications

References 51 publications

Prefrontal connections express individual differences in intrinsic resistance to trading off honesty values against economic benefits

Prefrontal connections express individual differences in intrinsic resistance to trading off honesty values against economic benefits

Fired Up by Morality: The Unique Physiological Response Tied to Moral Conviction in Politics

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