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Award Abstract #0725125
HSD: Collaborative Research: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Neurobiological Sources of Moral Judgments 
| NSF Org: | BCS Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 17, 2007 |
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| Latest Amendment Date: | June 1, 2009 |
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| Award Number: | 0725125 |
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| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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| Program Manager: | Larry E. Suter BCS Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences |
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| Start Date: | September 1, 2007 |
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| Expires: | August 31, 2011 (Estimated) |
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| Awarded Amount to Date: | $504778 |
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| Investigator(s): | Marc Hauser mdh102559@gmail.com (Principal Investigator) |
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| Sponsor: | Harvard University 1350 MASSACHUSETTS AVE Cambridge, MA 02138 617/495-5501 |
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| NSF Program(s): | HSD - GENERAL, HSD - DYNAMICS OF HUMAN BEHAVI |
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| Field Application(s): | 0116000 Human Subjects |
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ABSTRACT
A multidisciplinary research team will study various aspects of the nature of moral judgments and the causal factors for the capacity for cross-cultural variation and change. The project measures the nature of moral decisions across different time periods (evolutionary, developmental, and cultural) and among different test populations (nonhuman animals, normal and neurobiologically impaired human infants and adults, and different cultures). It uses different methods for each type of study including experiments of primates, large-scale internet studies, and neuropsychological investigation of patients. The investigators will to study two psychological factors: (1) The idea that intending to harm another as a means to the greater good is less permissible than harming merely as a foreseen side effect (the intention principle) and (2) The idea that acts that cause harm to others will be perceived as morally worse than omissions of an act that causes equivalent harm (the omission principle). Studies of these principles will be conducted with nonhuman primates and human infants to test the hypothesis that some of the core cognitive building blocks that are necessary for these principles (e.g., perceiving intentions and goals) are in place but only take on moral significance in our own species, and only later in child development. The investigators will test the hypothesis that these principles are universal but with cross-cultural variation in their specific content (e.g., who can be harmed) by using both large-scale internet-based studies as well as studies of hunter-gather and subsistence-based societies. They will test the hypothesis that governments can impose explicit laws that alter how people behave yet these explicit norms do not penetrate people's intuitive moral judgments. The investigators also will examine how neural insult systematically changes the nature of particular moral judgments among patient populations (i.e., autistics, individuals with damage to the frontal lobes and amygdala).
The project is expected to enhance basic understanding of how humans evolved the capacity to deliver moral judgments, how such judgments change over development and across cultures, and how the capacity breaks down following selective neural insult. Results from this project are likely to be useful in the arenas of justice, public policy, education, and clinical treatment, showcasing the biological and psychological mechanisms that humans bring to the moral table, and how they respond to policy that may be at odds with their intuitive moral sense. The project also will provide education and training opportunities for graduate students, including students from minority groups and developing nations.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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Abarbanell, L. & Hauser, M.D.. "Mayan morality: an exploration of permissible harms.," Cognition, v.115, 2010, p. 207.
Cima, M., Tonnaer, F., & Hauser, M.D.. "Psychopaths know right from wrong but don't care," Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, v.5, 2010, p. 59.
Glenn, A.L., Raine, A., Schug, R.A., Young, L.A., & Hauser, M.D.. "ncreased DLPFC activity during moral decision-making in psychopathy.," Molecular Psychiatry, v.14, 2009, p. 908.
Hauser, M.D.. "Is morality natural?," Newsweek, 2009.
Hauser, M.D.. "The origin of mind.," Scientific American, 2009.
Hauser, M.D.. "The possibility of impossible cultures.," Nature, v.460, 2009, p. 190.
Hauser, M.D.. "The origins of the mind.," Scientific American, v.Septemb, 2009, p. 44.
Hauser, M.D. & Wood, J.N.. "Evolving the capacity to understand actions, intentions and goals.," Annual Review of Psychology, v.61, 2010, p. 13.
Hauser, M.D., McAuliffe, K. & Blake, P.. "Evolving the ingredients for reciprocity and spite.," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.364, 2009, p. 3255.
Hauser, M.D., Tonnaer, F., & Cima, M.. "When moral intuitions are immune to the law: a case study of euthanasia and the act-omission distinction.," Journal of Cognition and Culture, v.9, 2009, p. 149.
Huebner, B., Dwyer, S. & Hauser, M.D.. "The role of emotion in moral psychology.," Trends in Cognitive Science, v.13, 2009, p. 1.
Huebner, B., Lee, J.J. & Hauser, M.D.. "The moral-conventional distinction in mature moral competence.," Journal of Cognition and Culture, v.10, 2010, p. 1.
Wood, J. & Hauser, M.D.. "Event comprehension: primates read beneath the surface appearance of actions.," Trends in Cognitive Science, v.12, 2008, p. 461.
Wood, J.N., Glynn, D.D., Hauser, M.D.. "Rhesus monkeys' understanding of actions and goals.," Social Neuroscience, v.3, 2008, p. 60.
Wood, JN; Glynn, DD; Phillips, BC; Hauser, MD. "The perception of rational, goal-directed action in nonhuman primates," SCIENCE, v.317, 2007, p. 1402-1405. View record at Web of Science
Young, L., Bechara, A., Tranel, D., Damasio, H., Hauser, M. & Damasio, A.. "Damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex impairs judgment of harmful intent.," Neuron, v.65, 2010, p. 845.
Young, L., Camprodon, J., Hauser, M., Pascual-Leone, A. & Saxe, R.. "Disruption of the right temporo- parietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments.," PNAS, v.107, 2010, p. 6753.
Huebner, B., Lee, J.J. & Hauser, M.D.. "The moral-conventional distinction in mature moral competence.," Journal of Cognition and Culture, v.10, 2010, p. 1.
Wood, J. & Hauser, M.D.. "Event comprehension: primates read beneath the surface appearance of actions.," Trends in Cognitive Science, v.12, 2008, p. 461.
Wood, J.N., Glynn, D.D., Hauser, M.D.. "Rhesus monkeys' understanding of actions and goals.," Social Neuroscience, v.3, 2008, p. 60.
Wood, JN; Glynn, DD; Phillips, BC; Hauser, MD. "The perception of rational, goal-directed action in nonhuman primates," SCIENCE, v.317, 2007, p. 1402-1405. View record at Web of Science
Young, L., Bechara, A., Tranel, D., Damasio, H., Hauser, M. & Damasio, A.. "Damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex impairs judgment of harmful intent.," Neuron, v.65, 2010, p. 845.
Young, L., Camprodon, J., Hauser, M., Pascual-Leone, A. & Saxe, R.. "Disruption of the right temporo- parietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments.," PNAS, v.107, 2010, p. 6753.
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Source/Fonte: National Science Foundation
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PERGUNTA INDISCRETA DESTE BLOGGER:
E se a moda pega por parte dos agentes públicos -- fraudou em ciência, devolve o dinheiro aos cofres públicos. E aqui no Brasil, não acontece nada disso? Nossos cientistas, apesar de viverem na linha do Equador, são santos, por demais santos? As universidades federais devolvem o dinheiro aos cofres públicos?
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