Publications by authors named "Laetitia Leloup"

Moral judgements are crucial for social life and rely on the analysis of the agent's intention and the outcome of the agent's action. The current study examines to the influence of how the information is presented on moral judgement. The first experiment investigated the effects of the order in which intention and outcome information was presented.

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  • - Recent studies suggest the right temporo-parietal junction (rTPJ) influences moral reasoning, particularly concerning accidental versus attempted harms, but findings differ across research.
  • - The current study found that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) notably impacted judgments on accidental harms, revealing that low stimulation increased severity judgments while higher stimulation decreased them.
  • - These results imply that the rTPJ plays a complex role in moral judgments, especially concerning mitigating factors that affect moral responsibility, and highlight the importance of specific design parameters in tDCS research.
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