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Moral evaluations of harm are instant and emotional
November 29, 2012 by NewsBot
People are able to detect, within a split second, if a hurtful action they are witnessing is intentional or accidental, new research on the brain shows. The study is the first to explain how the brain is hard-wired to recognize when another person is being intentionally harmed.