Tag: Joshua D. Greene

  • Science & Tech

    Major moral decisions use general-purpose brain circuits to manage uncertainty

    Harvard researchers have found that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used in more mundane choices related to money and food. These circuits, also found in other animals, put together two critical pieces of information:  How good or bad are the things that might happen?  What are the…

    3–4 minutes
  • Health

    What’s right for me?

    In a new study, Harvard scientists find that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used on more mundane choices such as money or food.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Neuroimaging suggests truthfulness requires no act of will for honest people

    A new study of the cognitive processes involved with honesty suggests that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation. Using neuroimaging, psychologists looked at the brain activity of people given the chance to gain money dishonestly by lying and found that honest people showed no additional neural activity when telling…

    3–5 minutes