A few papers on decision, the brain, and morality

A few papers worth reading:

A study on meta-ethics beleifs (how people see ethical claims):

• Goodwin, G. P., & Darley, J. M. (2008). The psychology of meta-ethics: exploring objectivism,Cognition, 106(3), 1339-1366.

Important for anyone interested in neuroscience: to a non-expert public, seeing a picture of a brain biases people to give more credibility to a piece of information:

• Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Frank C. Keil, Joshua Goodstein, Elizabeth Rawson, & Jeremy R. Gray. (2008, February 5). The seductive allure of neuroscience explanations.
  

Social cognition: it begins with goal recognition

• Rochat, M. J., Serra, E., Fadiga, L., & Gallese, V. (2008). The evolution of social cognition: goal familiarity shapes monkeys' action understanding, Curr Biol.

Jesse Prinz's new book (in a nutshell: morality is emotional and relative to a culture)

• The Emotional Construction of Morals, Jesse Prinz, Oxford UP

• The Palgrave Entry for "Field Experiments in Economics: (List, John A.& Reiley, David
  

Forthcoming in the new journal Neuroethics:

• Neuroethics and the Problem of Other Minds: Implications of Neuroscience for the Moral Status of Brain-Damaged Patients and Nonhuman Animals (Martha J. Farah)
  

A study on Chimpanzee barter behavior:

• Brosnan, S. F., Grady, M. F., Lambeth, S. P., Schapiro, S. J., & Beran, M. J. (2008). Chimpanzee autarky, PLoS ONE, 3(1), e1518.