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ArticleCognition2017

Emotion-based learning systems and the development of morality.

R J R Blair

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Article in Cognition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Correction of Reward Processing Deficits in Youth with Disruptive Behavior and Trauma Exposure: A Pilot Study of Neural Responses to Fluoxetine.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  4. Socioaffective Dynamics of Psychopathy in Daily Life.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025
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  8. Rethinking Norm Psychology.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024
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  9. Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024
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  17. Psychopathy.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

R J R BlairSection on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: jamesblair@mail.nih.gov.

Funding

Emotional Dysfunction and Childhood Behavioral DisturbanceZIAMH002860 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI BLAIR, JAMES R · 2009 to 2016
$9.5M
Emotional dysfunction--childhood behavioral disturbanceZ01MH002860 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI BLAIR, JAMES · 2005 to 2008
$2.0M
Acute threat and frustrative non-reward components of irritability and reactive aggressionK22MH109558 · NIMH · FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME · PI BLAIR, JAMES · 2016 to 2018
$972k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 MH002860Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002860NIMH NIH HHS K22 MH109558
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper it is proposed that important components of moral development and moral judgment rely on two forms of emotional learning: stimulus-reinforcement and response-outcome learning. Data in support of this position will be primarily drawn from work with individuals with the developmental condition of psychopathy as well as fMRI studies with healthy individuals. Individuals with psychopathy show impairment on moral judgment tasks and a pronounced increased risk for instrumental antisocial behavior. It will be argued that these impairments are developmental consequences of impaired stimulus-aversive conditioning on the basis of distress cue reinforcers and response-outcome learning in individuals with this disorder.

Indexed as

MoralsBrainEmotionsHumansJudgmentLearningMental DisordersModels, NeurologicalReinforcement, PsychologyAmygdalaEmotion-based learningMoral judgmentPsychopathy

Identifiers

PMID28395907
PMCPMC5572654

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