Philosophers tend to have a more optimistic view of moral reasoning than scientists. Plato, for example, famously thought that reason could control emotion.

However, distinct activity patterns emerged at finer resolution, suggesting that the brain processes different moral issues along different pathways, supporting a pluralist view of moral reasoning.

“This is Moral Theology 101,” said one moral theologian who, like several others interviewed, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of angering the hierarchy on such a sensitive topic.

A total of 67 MBA students were administered the Defining Issue Test to determine which pattern of thought or behavior, known as cognitive schema, each student used when reasoning about moral issues.

Individuals who have a high level of moral reasoning show increased activity in the brain's frontostriatal reward system, both during periods of rest and while performing a sequential risk taking ...

A recent moral choice in the midst of tragedy illustrates this point. Lassana Bathily a Mali native who immigrated to France as a teenager, was a worker for Hyper Cacher, a Paris kosher supermarket.

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Individuals with autism are more likely than others to assign blame based on a situation’s negative outcome — whether or not malice was intended — a new study suggests. The reason: people with autism ...