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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 107, 期 15, 页码 6753-6758出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914826107
关键词
functional MRI; morality; theory of mind
资金
- National Center for Research Resources [P41RR14075, UL1 RR025758]
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
- Fundacion Rafael del Pino
- National Institutes of Health [K 24 RR018875]
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- John Merck Scholars
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Simons Foundation
When we judge an action as morally right or wrong, we rely on our capacity to infer the actor's mental states (e.g., beliefs, intentions). Here, wetest the hypothesis that the right temporoparietal junction (RTPJ), an area involved in mental state reasoning, is necessary for making moral judgments. In two experiments, we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to disrupt neural activity in the RTPJ transiently before moral judgment (experiment 1, offline stimulation) and during moral judgment (experiment 2, online stimulation). In both experiments, TMS to the RTPJ led participants to rely less on the actor's mental states. A particularly striking effect occurred for attempted harms (e.g., actors who intended but failed to do harm): Relative to TMS to a control site, TMS to the RTPJ caused participants to judge attempted harms as less morally forbidden and more morally permissible. Thus, interfering with activity in the RTPJ disrupts the capacity to use mental states in moral judgment, especially in the case of attempted harms.
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