Contemplation of moral dilemmas eliminates sex differences on the iowa gambling task
| Autor: | Katherine Walsh, William H. Overman, Olga Samplawski, Alyssa Redmond, Lee Graham, Rebecca Eubank, Laura Boettcher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male Dorsum Adolescent Contemplation media_common.quotation_subject Decision Making Neuropsychological Tests Morals Developmental psychology Behavioral Neuroscience Humans Prefrontal cortex Moral dilemma media_common Sex Characteristics Cognition Deliberation Iowa Iowa gambling task humanities Games Experimental Gambling Female Psychology Emotional arousal Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Behavioral Neuroscience. 120:817-825 |
| ISSN: | 1939-0084 0735-7044 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/0735-7044.120.4.817 |
| Popis: | Men outperform women on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT; A. Bechara, H. Damasio, D. Tranel, & A. R. Damasio, 1997). In this study, the authors show that sex differences are not due to differences in general emotional arousal or the abilities to calculate or reverse responses. Imaging studies have shown that, during the IGT, men increase activity in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) and lateral orbital PFC, whereas women increase activity in the left medial orbital PFC. Deliberation of personal moral (PM) dilemmas also increases activity in medial and lateral dorsal PFC, whereas deliberation of moral impersonal (MI) dilemmas increases activity in lateral dorsal PFC. In the present study, men and women performed the IGT during PM, MI, or control deliberations. Deliberation of only PM dilemmas increased women's IGT performance to the level of men. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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