MIT: Moral judgments can be altered by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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Moral judgments can be altered

Morality Study Narrows Gap Between Mind And Brain : NPR


EM field, behind right ear, suspends morality | The Sci-Tech Heretic (this one a bit fringe but interesting take)


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Source: "Disruption of the right temporo-parietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments," Liane Young, Joan Albert Camprodon, Marc Hauser, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Rebecca Saxe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, week of March 29, 2010.

 

[ygolo]

Interesting read. Thanks heart.

 

[figsfiggyfigs]

Fascinating....
This is really cool!!!

 

[Fluffywolf]

Also pretty scary. :O

No magnetic waves near my brain plx.

 

[entropie]

Haha nice that thing in a portable device and I am gonna be the next Hugh Heffner

 

[JivinJeffJones]

Lefties, bookmark! :hi:

 

[simulatedworld]

Haha nice that thing in a portable device and I am gonna be the next Hugh Heffner

touche


Interesting article btw.

Lefties, bookmark! :hi:

Uber-religious far righties too!

 

[William K]

Time to break out the tinfoil hats!

 

[StrappingYoungLad]

So... cellphone addicts worship Satan ?

 

[ajblaise]

Moral relativism FTW

I think I'm going to buy one of these now: Buy Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Phisiotherapy Apparatus from Anyang Xiangyu Medical Equipment Co., Ltd.

 

[JivinJeffJones]

Uber-religious far righties too!

I was referring to left-handed ppl, since they're more likely to hold a cell-phone to their left ear and thus can claim a less vulnerable sense of morality.

 

[Totenkindly]

I guess the question is, do we have any way to fix the right temporo-parietal junction of simplistic judgmental people so that they reason from a morally higher plane?


... ps. I really liked the twinge of potential paranoia in the third article, tying cell phone use to the possible disruption of brain waves and moral judgment. (bum-bum-BUUUUMMMM!)

Really interesting!

 

[Lark]

I know a lot of people who function like they got a permanent disruption going on.

 

[simulatedworld]

I was referring to left-handed ppl, since they're more likely to hold a cell-phone to their left ear and thus can claim a less vulnerable sense of morality.

oh...whoops. I took that as a political commentary on the fundamentally animalistic nature of humans, to imply support for free market capitalism.

...my bad.