Hi - was wondering if anyone may be examining the neural substrates of moral emotions particularly shame and guilt. I'm particularly interested in any new research using imaging studies. Many thanks.
Hello Anne!
Here is some recent papers about mood and its regulation, also shame and guilt in that order:
Davidson, R. J., Lewis, D. A., Alloy, L. B., Amaral, D. G., Bush, G., Cohen, J. D., ... & Peterson, B. S. (2002). Neural and behavioral substrates of mood and mood regulation. Biological psychiatry, 52(6), 478-502.
Sheikh, S., & Janoff-Bulman, R. (2010). The “shoulds” and “should nots” of moral emotions: A self-regulatory perspective on shame and guilt. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(2), 213-224.
Woodward, J., & Allman, J. (2007). Moral intuition: its neural substrates and normative significance. Journal of Physiology-Paris, 101(4), 179-202.
Hope be useful, David
http://investigatinghealthyminds.org/ScientificPublications/2002/DavidsonNeuralBiologicalPsychiatry.pdf
https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/1748/3/SheikhJanoff_Bulman_GuiltandShamePSPBInPressversion.pdf
http://authors.library.caltech.edu/13453/1/WoodwardAllman2007.pdf
A very marginal suggestion (I am not a neurologist):
While the individual is examined with that technology, moral emotions might perhaps be hardly provoked by experimenters. So, I suggest to use the distinction focused on by Myllyneva & Hietanenan, 2015. "When participants did not see the model but believed they were seen by the model, physiological responses (indexing arousal and attention allocation that typically follow making eye-contact) were attenuated in comparison to when both parties saw each other. However, self-assessed public self-awareness was not attenuated in this condition." Those two situations (the subject's perception of eye-contact, on the one hand, and the subject's belief of that he is seen by somebody, on the other hand), which can be easily and ethically established, share an element (the "non-attenuated" one). The neural substrate of this common element could be close to the neural substrate of self-conscious or moral emotions.
Dear Anne,
some examples:
Article The Self as a Moral Agent: Linking the Neural Bases of Socia...
Conference Paper Neural Substrates of Basic and Moral Emotions in Normal Subjects
Article A four-part working bibliography of neuroethics: part 2--Neu...
Article Neurobiology of moral emotions
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