“You Should Praise” – “You Should Kill”: The Contingent Negative Variation Indicates Moral Goodness and Badness
Moral advice (how to behave in life) is often conveyed by short, simple sentence constructions: “You – should – (plus verb with moral meaning).” Yet how moral prescriptions are processed has never been studied from a neurocognitive perspective. The results of this study suggest that the contingent n...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2019-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00432/full |