Promoted to Headline (H3) on 4/5/10: Moral judgments can be altered: Neuroscientists influence people's moral judgments by disrupting specific brain region
Previous studies have shown that a brain region known as the right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is highly active when we think about other people's intentions, thoughts and beliefs. In the new study, the researchers disrupted activity in the right TPJ by inducing a current in the brain using a magnetic field applied to the scalp. They found that the subjects' ability to make moral judgments that require an understanding
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