The developmental neuroscience of moral sensitivity

Emotion Review

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 305-307

  Decety, Jean ^a   Michalska, Kalina J ^a   Kinzler, Katherine D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; empathy; insula; moral reasoning; ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960003524     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073911402373     Document Type: Review

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