#794 Oriel FeldmanHall: The Social Neuroscience of Moral Decision-Making
Dr. Oriel FeldmanHall is the Alfred Manning Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, the NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Herry Merritt Wriston Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship, and the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society’s Innovation Award. Dr. FeldmanHall’s research seeks to disentangle the cognitive and neural processes behind the complex choices that form the basis of human social behavior.
In this episode, we talk about morality from the perspective of social neuroscience. We discuss if it makes sense to talk about different psychological ingredients to morality, like moral foundations. We talk about the role of emotion in decision-making, and the regions of the brain that participate in moral decision-making. We discuss what drives us to help others, and if the question of whether we are selfish of selfless makes sense. We talk about how learning shapes our moral values; how social norms evolve, and why we comply to them; and how people weigh competing moral motivations. We talk about uncertainty in social contexts, and how people reduce it. We discuss the disconnect between people’s moral beliefs and their behavior. Finally, we address general questions, like the nature vs. nurture debate; how social neuroscience relates to the social sciences and neuroscience; and if there are objective moral values.
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Intro
Morality from the perspective of neuroscience
Are there different psychological ingredients to morality?
The role of emotion in (moral) decision-making
Regions of the brain that participate in moral decision-making
What drives us to help others? Are we selfish or selfless?
How learning shapes our moral values
How social norms evolve, and why we comply to them
How people weigh competing moral motivations
Uncertainty in social contexts, and the strategies people adopt to reduce it
The disconnect between people’s moral beliefs and their behavior
The nature vs. nurture debate
How social neuroscience is positioned in relation to the social sciences and neuroscience
Are there objective moral values?
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Faculty page: https://bit.ly/30TnTwC
FeldmanHall Lab: https://bit.ly/2OoRT0X
Works on ResearchGate: https://bit.ly/3yCgPrh