Babies’ neural responses to morally charged scenarios are influenced by their parents’ attitudes toward justice, new research from the University of Chicago shows. The study from Prof. Jean Decety and...Read more

University of Chicago developmental neuroscientists have found specific brain markers that predict generosity in children. Those neural markers appear to be linked to both social and moral evaluation processes. There...Read more

People who care about justice are swayed more by reason than emotion, according to new brain scan research from the Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience...Read more

Jean Decety is a leading scholar on the cognitive neuroscience of moral reasoning, social decision-making, empathy, justice motivation and prosocial behavior, as well as other topics related to how we...Read more