dc.contributor.author
Prehn, Kristin
dc.contributor.author
Korczykowski, Marc
dc.contributor.author
Rao, Hengyi
dc.contributor.author
Fang, Zhuo
dc.contributor.author
Detre, John A.
dc.contributor.author
Robertson, Diana C.
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T04:03:36Z
dc.date.available
2015-07-03T12:51:46.972Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/16495
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-20676
dc.description.abstract
Going back to Kohlberg, moral development research affirms that people
progress through different stages of moral reasoning as cognitive abilities
mature. Individuals at a lower level of moral reasoning judge moral issues
mainly based on self-interest (personal interests schema) or based on
adherence to laws and rules (maintaining norms schema), whereas individuals at
the post-conventional level judge moral issues based on deeper principles and
shared ideals. However, the extent to which moral development is reflected in
structural brain architecture remains unknown. To investigate this question,
we used voxel-based morphometry and examined the brain structure in a sample
of 67 Master of Business Administration (MBA) students. Subjects completed the
Defining Issues Test (DIT-2) which measures moral development in terms of
cognitive schema preference. Results demonstrate that subjects at the post-
conventional level of moral reasoning were characterized by increased gray
matter volume in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and subgenual anterior
cingulate cortex, compared with subjects at a lower level of moral reasoning.
Our findings support an important role for both cognitive and emotional
processes in moral reasoning and provide first evidence for individual
differences in brain structure according to the stages of moral reasoning
first proposed by Kohlberg decades ago.
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dc.rights.uri
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc
100 Philosophie und Psychologie
dc.title
Neural Correlates of Post-Conventional Moral Reasoning: A Voxel-Based
Morphometry Study
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation
PLoS ONE. - 10 (2015), 6, Artikel Nr. e0122914
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1371/journal.pone.0122914
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0122914
refubium.affiliation
Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
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FUDOCS_document_000000022766
refubium.note.author
Der Artikel wurde in einer Open-Access-Zeitschrift publiziert.
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000005136
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open access