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Moral judgments of intentional and accidental moral violations across Harm and Purity domains

The purpose of this data is to investigate neural differences within regions associated with Theory of Mind across a) intentional vs accidental moral acts; b) across moral domains (harmful vs impure acts); c) across moral subdomains; d) between morally relevant and nonmoral scenarios. Subjects were scanned while completing a Theory of Mind localizer task, and while completing the moral judgment task. For each scenario, subjects saw a text-based version of the scenario, and rated its moral wrongness on a 1-4 scale. Each scenario text was presented in 4 serial segments, comprising Background, Action, Outcome, and Intent.

 

For representational similarity analysis scripts: https://github.com/lypsychlab/RSA

Tasks:

000 false belief task

Investigators:

  • Amelia Brown
  • James Dungan
  • Jorie Koster-Hale
  • Emily Wasserman
  • Alek Chakroff
  • Rebecca Saxe
  • Liane Young

Contact Information:

Name: Liane Young (Contact only after 7/2017)
Email: liane.young@bc.edu

Acknowledgements and Funding:

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Simons Foundation, NIH Grant 1R01 MH096914-01A1. Thanks to the members of the Morality Lab and Saxelab for helpful comments on manuscripts and data analyses.

External Publication Links:

Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions
When minds matter for moral judgment: intent information is neurally encoded for harmful but not impure acts

Sample Size:

39

Scanner Type:

Siemens 3T Trio

License:

PDDL

Accession Number:

ds000212

How to cite this dataset:

In addition to any citation requirements in the dataset summary please use the following to cite this dataset:

This data was obtained from the OpenfMRI database. Its accession number is ds000212

Curated:

Yes

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Revision: 1.0.1 Date Set: Oct. 11, 2017, 10:27 p.m.

Notes:

- Added BIDSVersion to dataset_description.json

Revision: 1.0.0 Date Set: Dec. 1, 2016, 6:11 p.m.

Notes:

- Initial release