Brain trust

Article Abstract:

Trust is indispensable in friendship, love, families and organizations and plays a key role in economic exchange and politics. It is shown that intranasal administration of oxytocin, a neuropeptide that plays a key role in social attachment and affiliation in non-human mammals, causes a substantial increase in trust in humans, thereby greatly increasing the benefits from social interactions.

United States, Public affairs, Social aspects, Genetic aspects, Interpersonal relations, Trust (Psychology)

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Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements

Article Abstract:

Patients with focal bilateral damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC) have produced an abnormal 'utilitarian' pattern of judgements on moral dilemmas against highly emotionally aversive behaviors. Results show that VMPC is critical for normal judgements of right and wrong and support a necessary role for emotion in the generation of those judgements.

Psychological aspects, Decision-making, Decision making, Physiological aspects, Cerebral cortex, Judgment, Judgment (Psychology), Brain damage, Neuropsychology

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Fundamental feelings

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning the development of emotional science study and the discovery of different emotional body responses caused by stimuli to the brain, are discussed.

Study and teaching, Science, Emotions, Personality and emotions, Personality (Psychology)

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