Article by Rene Weber, Comm PhDs Frederic Hopp and Jacob Fisher, and Colleagues Published in Nature Human Behavior

Rene Weber, Comm PhDs Frederic Hopp and Jacob Fisher, and colleagues have just had their article, Moral foundations elicit shared and dissociable cortical activation modulated by political ideology, published in Nature Human Behavior. The UCSB News Office writes, “Fascinated by this centuries-old debate, a team of researchers set out to probe the nature of morality using one of moral psychology’s most prolific theories. The group, led by UC Santa Barbara’s René Weber, intensively studied 64 individuals via surveys, interviews and brain imaging on the wrongness of various behaviors.” The full press release is here.