When Morality Is Hard To Like ~~ Newest Discussion Idea for IONS Community Groups as of April 22, 2008
How do we juggle evidence and emotions to make a moral decision? In the past decade or so cognitive scientists have begun examining what happens in the brain when we struggle with moral and ethical decisions. Co-authors of this Scientific American Mind magazine article Jorge Moll and Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza are director and researcher, respectively, at the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Unit at Labs D'Or in Rio de Janeiro. Discussion questions are available at http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/3444.
