The amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex in morality and psychopathy.

By R. James R. Blair. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy

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Trait psychopathy and utilitarian moral judgement: The mediating role of action aversion (2015, background): “These aversive reinforcement associations are then represented in vmPFC as expected action values and are accessed by decision-making systems, including moral decision-making systems, to prevent individuals from engaging in harmful actions (Blair, 2007, 2013).”
The Development of Empathy : How , When , and Why (2010, background): “Psychopathy is characterized by a lack of empathy and guilt, as well as the presence of antisocial behaviors (Blair 2007).”
Psychopathy, reactive aggression, and precarious proclamations: A review of behavioral, cognitive, and biological research. (2011, background): “However, these tasks may lack precision in their ability to localize dysfunction, as other research suggests that neuroaffective deficits in psychopathy are more specific to the ventromedial PFC (vmPFC), OFC, and ACC (Blair, 2007; Blair et al., 2006; Kiehl, 2006; LaPierre, Braun, & Hodgins, 1995), w”
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Judgment (2010, background): “The VMPFC, which is known to work in concert with the amygdala (Diergaarde et al., 2005; Schoenbaum and Roesch, 2005), also exhibits many of these effects and appears to play a role in (mis)representing the value of behavioral outcomes in psychopathy (Blair, 2007).”
Predicting domain-specific risk taking with the HEXACO personality structure (2011, background): “Psychopathy, in particular, has been associated with impulsivity, committing moral transgressions, poor decision making, and risk taking (e.g., Blair, 2007; Hare, 1985), but a relationship between risk taking and narcissism has also been reported (Campbell, Goodie, & Foster, 2004).”
Boldness Explains a Key Difference Between Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder (2015, background): “…instance, two individuals with ASPD may share no criteria), whereas psychopathy has a strong etiological basis in neurobiology, specifically the amygdala (or more broadly the paralimbic system) and the prefrontal cortex (orbitofrontal, dorsal anterior cingulate) (Blair, 2007, 2008; Kiehl, 2006).”