Name: Anonymous 2010-03-31 13:42
Scientists have discovered your moral compass - and it's just behind your right ear. MIT researchers have found they can successfully alter people's moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region.
"You think of morality as being a really high-level behavior," she says. "To be able to apply [a magnetic field] to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing."
In both experiments, the MIT researchers found that when the right TPJ was disrupted, subjects were more likely to judge failed attempts to harm as morally permissible.
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/49164-mit-neuroscientists-can-affect-peoples-morals
"You think of morality as being a really high-level behavior," she says. "To be able to apply [a magnetic field] to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing."
In both experiments, the MIT researchers found that when the right TPJ was disrupted, subjects were more likely to judge failed attempts to harm as morally permissible.
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/49164-mit-neuroscientists-can-affect-peoples-morals