“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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christiane Neuhaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
CNV
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00432/full