Chris at Mixing Memory, a blog with very many interesting articles, has this post about a new study conducted by Piercarlo Valdesolo and David DeSterno which implies that moral judgements are influenced by emotions.
This should only be surprising when subscribing to traditional “western” faculty psychology – a soul being in charge of the body, which reasons in an abstract reasoning space.
To adherents of the embodiment paradigm – that all our cognition depends on the structure of our bodies (at the chemical level, at the morphological level etc) – especially also on the specific structure and neural states of our brains – which are all, after all, embodied (hormones, neural transmitters, excitation levels of neuronal clusters) – this is a rather logical effect.
