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Empathy Mediates the Effects of Age and Sex on Altruistic Moral Decision Making.

Front Behav Neurosci

May 2016

Institute of Gerontology, Psychological Gerontology and Center for Neuropsychological Diagnostics and Intervention, University of VechtaVechta, Germany; Neuropsychology and Gender Studies and Center for Neuropsychological Diagnostics and Intervention, Department of Medical Psychology, University Hospital CologneCologne, Germany.

Moral decision making involves affective and cognitive functions like emotional empathy, reasoning and cognitive empathy/theory of mind (ToM), which are discussed to be subject to age-related alterations. Additionally, sex differences in moral decision making have been reported. However, age-related changes in moral decision making from early to late adulthood and their relation to sex and neuropsychological functions have not been studied yet.

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