The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) has been suggested to be of great importance for moral decision-making. It has been suggested that during moral decision-making, lesions to the vmPFC increases what researchers term “utilitarian” decision-making. This systematic review summarizes four peer-reviewed studies that were filtered and selected from the databases Web of Science, Scopus and Medline EBSCO. The studies selected compared participants with vmPFC lesions to controls during moral decision-making. One study tested moral evaluation through moral transgressions and distractions. Two studies tested moral responses during personal, impersonal and non-moral dilemmas. One study tested whether direct involvement in a dilemma alters the utilitarian response. The overall results all point towards the vmPFC being directly involved in moral decision-making and that higher rates of utilitarian decision-making were shown in patients with vmPFC lesions compared to controls.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:his-24138 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Karlberg, Ludvig |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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