- Social values held with moral conviction can be used to justify violence. When people hold strong moral convictions and saw photos of violent protests congruent with their own views, a new study detected activation in the reward system in the brain—almost as if the violence was a ‘valuable’ thing. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-study-explores-neural-mechanisms-behind-support-political-violence 3 comments science
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