SynthesisCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2025
Empathy and moral judgment: Systematic review and meta-analysis of ERP studies.
Synthesis in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Equal Partners, Prioritized Lives? Preschoolers' Evaluative Patterns Toward Humans and Robots in Conventional and Moral Domains.PsyCh journal · 2026Article
- Empathy and moral judgment as psychological mechanisms of socially oriented consumption: evidence from an emerging economy.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- How far does the moral dilemma go? Neural and autonomic correlates contribute to explain emotional conflict and empathy behavior in Sophie's Choice.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Although the bidirectional relationship between empathy and moral judgment has been extensively investigated, the underlying neural mechanisms remain elusive. The current study examined 19 event-related potential studies to explore the relationship between empathy and moral judgment, including 60 effect sizes. It was found that individuals with higher levels of empathy exhibited a significantly increased amplitude in the N2 component during moral judgment tasks when presented with moral versus immoral scenarios (r
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