التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Social odors (even when masked) make you more emotional: behavioral and neural insights |
| المؤلفون: |
Cecchetto, Cinzia, Lancini, Elisa, Bueti, Domenica, Rumiati, Raffaella I, Parma, Valentina |
| بيانات النشر: |
Center for Open Science |
| سنة النشر: |
2018 |
| الوصف: |
Moral rules evolved within specific social contexts that are argued to shape moral choices. In turn, moral choices are hypothesized to be affected by social odors as they powerfully convey socially-relevant information. We thus investigated the neural underpinnings of the effects that social odors operate on the participants’ decisions. In an fMRI study we presented to healthy individuals 64 moral dilemmas divided in incongruent (real) and congruent (fake) moral dilemmas, using different types of harm (intentional: instrumental dilemmas, or inadvertent: accidental dilemmas). Participants were required to choose between deontological or utilitarian actions under the exposure to a neutral fragrance (masker) or social odors concealed by the same masker. Smelling the masked social odor while processing incongruent (but not congruent) dilemmas activates the supramarginal gyrus, consistent with an increase in prosocial attitude. When processing accidental (but not instrumental) dilemmas, smelling the social odor activates the angular gyrus, an area associated with the processing of people’s presence, supporting the hypothesis that social odors enhance the saliency of the social context in moral scenarios. These results suggest that social odors can influence moral choices by increasing the emotional experience during the decision process, and further explain how sensory unconscious biases influence human behavior. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
other/unknown material |
| اللغة: |
unknown |
| DOI: |
10.31234/osf.io/h6f23 |
| الإتاحة: |
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h6f23Test |
| حقوق: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeTest |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.AB63A489 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
