Psychology 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Binti Jua, Tell Me Lies, Reciprocal Altruism

• School: Harvard University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 15
• Professor: Joshua Greene

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Lecture 15: morality, justice, and death: part i. Selfishness and self-control: the just world, terror management and aggression, culture, religion, and cooperation, roots of moral behavior. Emotions, feelings: moral feelings, toward cooperative behavior. This was sort of unethical: monkeys provide food rewards to neighbors. Pull lever to give themselves a food reward or pull lever to give themselves a food reward as well as a food reward to a neighbor. Monkeys pull the latter more often: chimps will help a human retrieve an out-of-reach object. Chimps will spontaneously help humans: chimps are more likely to share food with those who have groomed them in the past and take food from individuals who have harmed them in the past, moral babies o. Selfishness and self-control: guilt and self-control o. Predicts no additional control network activity for honest choices. Subjects undergoing fmri attempt to predict the outcomes of many computerized coin-flips: variable monetary rewards for accuracy (-7) o.