Community | December 11, 2010 | 1 comment

Morality is modified in the lab

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Scientists have shown they can change people's moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses.
They identified a region of the brain just above and behind the right ear which appears to control morality.
And by using magnetic pulses to block cell activity they impaired volunteers' notion of right and wrong.
The small Massachusetts Institute of Technology study appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8593748.stm
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    • Some more "wonderful and creative" lab work for Utopiansky to get excited about. I know I'd want them playing with my head like this. Maybe even using HARP to create the magnetic pulse? Anyones guess as to why they would be interested in changing your moral way of thinking.

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