Automatic detection of moral information: evidence from visual mismatch response (vMMR)
Bo Sun, Shasha Guo, Zenghua Xing, Xixi Gu · 2026
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Description
Bo Sun and fellow researchers ask whether the brain spots moral content on its own in 2026, without being asked to judge. Volunteers viewed moral and immoral items while brain waves were recorded. A wave pattern that flags surprise at change was used to test fast, automatic noticing. The task at hand was varied to see if focus altered the signal.
Only immoral items sparked an early surprise wave, and focus on the task did not change its size. Both kinds of items sparked a later wave as well. The pattern backs the view that moral sense starts as a quick gut response with a bias toward wrongdoing. Later stages add deeper automatic review.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bo Sun, Shasha Guo, Zenghua Xing, Xixi Gu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 60273 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |