BBC: Morality is modifed in the Lab

[FLPanhandle]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8593748.stm

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.

Lead researcher Dr Liane Young said: "You think of morality as being a really high-level behaviour.

"To be able to apply a magnetic field to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing."


I wonder what all the fundies who claim morality is given by God are going to say now?

[bbgrunt]

1. maybe that's what's wrong with this country. Too much

magnetic damage from cellphones, wifi, backscatter x-rays, etc.

[FLPanhandle]

3. Maybe magnetic shielding of Congress would be a good thing?

Then again, some of them are evil to the core.

[KittyWampus]

2. How idiotic. This article says that the pulses interfere with awareness of intentions

So it goes much further than "moral judgements".

[FLPanhandle]

5. Even so, if easily modified by something as simple as a magnetic pulse

It's still an important discovery, even if the media overplays their hand on science stories.

[defendandprotect]

4. kr