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Atypical moral judgment following traumatic brain injury

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dc.contributor.authorMartins, Ana Teresa
dc.contributor.authorFaísca, Luís
dc.contributor.authorEsteves, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorMuresan, A.
dc.contributor.authorReis, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-31T10:38:34Z
dc.date.available2014-07-31T10:38:34Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2014-07-30T10:20:07Z
dc.description.abstractPrevious research has shown an association between emotions, particularly social emotions, and moral judgments. Some studies suggested an association between blunted emotion and the utilitarian moral judgments observed in patients with prefrontal lesions. In order to investigate how prefrontal brain damage affects moral judgment, we asked a sample of 29 TBI patients (12 females and 17 males) and 41 healthy participants (16 females and 25 males) to judge 22 hypothetical dilemmas split into three different categories (non-moral, impersonal and personal moral). The TBI group presented a higher proportion of affirmative (utilitarian) responses for personal moral dilemmas when compared to controls, suggesting an atypical pattern of utilitarian judgements. We also found a negative association between the performance on recognition of social emotions and the proportion of affirmative responses on personal moral dilemmas. These results suggested that the preference for utilitarian responses in this type of dilemmas is accompanied by difficulties in social emotion recognition. Overall, our findings suggest that deontological moral judgments are associated with normal social emotion processing and that frontal lobe plays an important role in both emotion and moral judgment.por
dc.identifier.citationMartins, Ana T.; Faísca, Luís; Esteves, Francisco; Muresan, Angelica; Reis, Alexandra. Atypical moral judgment following traumatic brain injury, Judgment and Decision Making, 7, 4, 478-487, 2012.por
dc.identifier.issn1930-2975
dc.identifier.otherAUT: LFA00717; AIR01687; ATM01984;
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4878
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherSociety for Judgment and Decision Makingpor
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://journal.sjdm.org/11/111104a/jdm111104a.pdfpor
dc.subjectMoral judgmentpor
dc.subjectSocial emotion recognitionpor
dc.subjectFrontal TBIpor
dc.titleAtypical moral judgment following traumatic brain injurypor
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage487por
oaire.citation.startPage478por
oaire.citation.titleJudgment and Decision Makingpor
oaire.citation.volume7por
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person.givenNameAna Teresa
person.givenNameLuís
person.givenNameAlexandra
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