Empathy, Sympathy, and Moral Reasoning
adolescents mostly make meritocratic decisions (a little bit of utilitarian and libertarian as well)
⇒ decision making
As adolescents mature, they increasingly distinguish between intentional and accidental harm, viewing the former as worse. When contemplating the latter, there is now less activation of three brain regions related to pain processing, namely the Amygdala, the insular cortex (insula)], and the premotor areas (the last reflecting the tendency to cringe when hearing about pain being inflicted). Meanwhile, there is increasing dorsolateral PFC and Ventromedial PFC activation when contemplating intentional harm. In other words, it is a frontal task to appreciate the painfulness of someone’s being harmed intentionally.
(p.156)
⇒ Pain Perception
Feeling someone else’s pain is painful, and people who do so most strongly, with the most pronounced arousal and anxiety, are actually less likely to act prosocially.
Cappucine fühlen auch Gerechtigkeit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZo
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Chapter 6 Adolescence or Dude Where’s My Frontal Cortex
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