The Correlation Between Emotional Activity and Moral Judgment

There is this correlation between a certain sort of activity in the brain and a particular kind of moral judgment. What do we conclude from that? Well we conclude that people who make judgments of certain sorts are making those judgments but cause those processes are active. But you can't really conclude that from what I've told you so far. The activation in those emotional areas might be an after effect rather than a cause of the judgment. People have done studies using disgusting smells. And it turns out that when you are asked certain types of moral dilemmas you make different judgments depending on the kinds of smells that are in the room. That is evidence that for those people and those judgments the emotions are actually