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Understanding Human Morality


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    Fauve Blanchard

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Sources Discussed in Video
  • de Waal, F.B.M. (2008). Putting the altruism back into altruism: The evolution of empathy. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 279.
  • Decety, J. & Jackson, P.L. (2004). The functional architecture of human empathy. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 3, 71-100.
  • Greene, J.D., Nystrom, L.E., Engell, A.D., Darley, J.M., & Cohen, J.D. (2004). The neural bases of cognitive conflict and control in moral judgment. Neuron, 44(2), 389-400.
  • Greene, J.D., Sommerville, R.B., Nystrom, L.E., Darley, J.M., & Cohen, J.D. (2001) REPORTS - An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment. Science, 293, 5537-2105.
  • Molnar-Szakacs, I. (2011). From actions to empathy and morality - A neural perspective. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 7, 76-85.

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  • Abumrad, J. & Krulwich, R. (producers) (2006). Morality. WNYC's Radiolab [Audio Podcast]. Retrieved from: http://www.radiolab.org/
  • Narvaez, D. & Vaydich, J.L. 92008). Moral development and behaviour under the spotlight of the neurobiological sciences. Journal of Moral Education, 37, 289-312.
  • Barry, A. Mirror neurons: How we become what we see. Visual Communication Quarterly, 16, 79-89.
  • Bekodd, M. & Pierce, J. (2009). Wild justice: The moral lives of animals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Brosnan, S.F. & Beran, M.J. (2009). Trading behaviour between conspecifics in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 123, 181-194.
  • Hauser, M.D. (2000). Morals, apes, and us. When Binti the gorilla rescued a small boy who fell into her enclosure at a Chicago zoo, did she know she was doing a good deed? Can animals learn to share, cooperate, and punish? Discover New York, 21 50-55.
  • Masserman, J.H. Wechkin, S. & Terris, W. (1964). "Altruistic" behaviour in rhesus monkeys. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 121, 584-585.
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