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What Are the Effects of a Right Temperprital Junction on Moral Judgments?
Leon: Some people might focus more on the neutral outcome, the fact that nothing bad happened at all. Other folks might focus a lot more on the fact that this person just tried to poison their coworker and that's very, very bad. You have the insight to study not just how people reached different conclusions, but how their brains were operating as they reached these different moral judgments. Can you tell me about those studies and what you found? Leon: We run a number of studies now, using or brain imaging techniques to look at how people's brains are responding as they are making moral adjudgmentsof these kinds of cases.