ArticleScience advances2020
Does inappropriate behavior hurt or stink? The interplay between neural representations of somatic experiences and moral decisions.
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- Neural Correlates of Moral Judgment in Dilemma Versus Non-Dilemma Contexts.Brain and behavior · 2026Review
- Parietofrontal Networks Mediate Contextual Influences in the Appraisal of Pain and Disgust Facial Expressions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- A neurofunctional signature of subjective disgust generalizes to oral distaste and socio-moral contexts.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Influence of transient emotional episodes on affective and cognitive theory of mind.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Healthcare experience affects pain-specific responses to others' suffering in the anterior insula.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Distraction and cognitive control independently impact parietal and prefrontal response to pain.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Far from the eyes, far from the heart: COVID-19 confinement dampened sensitivity to painful facial features.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Relationship between sensory characteristics and cortical thickness/volume in autism spectrum disorders.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
Embodied models suggest that moral judgments are strongly intertwined with first-hand somatic experiences, with some pointing to disgust, and others arguing for a role of pain/harm. Both disgust and pain are unpleasant, arousing experiences, with strong relevance for survival, but with distinctive sensory qualities and neural channels. Hence, it is unclear whether moral cognition interacts with sensory-specific properties of one somatic experience or with supramodal dimensions common to both. Across two experiments, participants evaluated ethical dilemmas and subsequently were exposed to disgusting (olfactory) or painful (thermal) stimulations of matched unpleasantness. We found that moral scenarios enhanced physiological and neural activity to subsequent disgust (but not pain), as further supported by an independently validated whole-brain signature of olfaction. This effect was mediated by activity in the posterior cingulate cortex triggered by dilemma judgments. Our results thus speak in favor of an association between moral cognition and sensory-specific properties of disgust.
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