Moral disgust leaves us with a ‘bad taste’

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Moral disgust leaves us with a ‘bad taste’

When we witness behaviors that violate shared moral norms, our brain inhibits the neurons that control our tongue movements—just as it does when something tastes bad. An international research group led by the Universities of Bologna and Messina came to this result in their study published in the journal of Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience and recently awarded the “Best Paper Prize 2021” at the XII International Conference on Neuroethics.

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