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Neuro-Computational Foundations of Moral Preferences

2019-10-13

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Moral preferences pervade many aspects of our lives, dictating how we ought to behave, whom we can marry, and even what we eat. Despite their relevance, one fundamental question remains unanswered: Where do individual moral preferences come from? It is often thought that all types of preferences reflect properties of domain-general neural decision mechanisms that employ a common “neural currency” to value choice o...

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Literature Corpus work: 321efb45-f3fc-5e80-9d64-6784839809b1
DOI: 10.1101/801936

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