Ethical decisions tied to brain's emotional centers
By Greg Kline
Friday May 9, 2008
John Dixon
UI Prof. Ming Hsu sits in front of a computer monitor displaying MRI images of a brain at his office at the Beckman Institute in Urbana.
Maybe it's not surprising that we apparently react more with emotion than logic when deciding what we consider fair.
But a University of Illinois researcher and colleagues have now identified parts of the brain that come into play in such situations in a study designed to look at what goes on in our heads – literally – during moral decision making.
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