The Moral Brain
Decety, Jean (Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago) / Wheatley, Thalia (Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College)
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand human moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms shaped through evolution, development, and culture. Evolutionary biologists have shown that moral cognition evolved to aid cooperation, developmental psychologists have demonstrated that the elements that underpin morality are in ...