Descripción del proyecto
Comprender mejor la moralidad humana en un mundo en rápida evolución
A menudo, los dilemas morales actuales giran en torno a la decisión de salvar, dañar, condenar o perdonar a otros. Estas elecciones están influidas por las normas sociales y el contexto, que dan forma a nuestra brújula moral. Sin embargo, la investigación existente sobre la cognición moral afronta dos limitaciones. En primer lugar, los estudios se han centrado en las preferencias morales individuales en entornos aislados, pasando por alto la dinámica social de la vida real. En segundo lugar, el uso de dilemas hipotéticos ha dejado un vacío entre las decisiones morales teóricas y las opciones prácticas del mundo real. Con el apoyo de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, el equipo del proyecto YOURMORALS explorará la influencia de la presencia social en las preferencias morales individuales, lo que tenderá un puente entre la teoría y la realidad. Combinando experimentos conductuales y neurofisiológicos, y empleando técnicas únicas de hiperescaneado basadas en EEG, simulará contextos sociales a través de interacciones diádicas.
Objetivo
In our modern societies, moral situations often refer to saving, hurting, condemning, or sparing peers. The direction of our moral preferences (e.g. utilitarian, deontological) is inherently shaped by social norms and social context. However, current experimental research on moral cognition suffers from two main limitations. First, while a wealth of research has examined individual’s moral preferences in single settings, no research to our knowledge has examined individual’s moral preferences in real-life social settings. Second, because of the long-standing paradigm involving the use of hypothetical and sacrificial dilemmas to measure decision-making (i.e. save or sacrifice lives), we assume there is a discrepancy between hypothetical and realistic moral decision-making. Compared to the current state-of-the-art, YourMORALS will allow for the first time to assess the role of social presence on individual’s moral preferences, shedding light on both cognitive and neural processes underlying responses to realistic scenarios. This research will combine behavioural and neurophysiological paradigms by using a unique experimental system allowing to mimic social context through dyadic interactions. The proposed experiments will permit to clarify the role of social presence through, 1) indirect exposition to other’s moral choices (single setting), 2) direct presence of other (social setting). The latest innovative EEG-based hyperscanning techniques will be used to measure multiple brains’ activity. We will also construct an open, standardized and realistic moral dilemmas dataset. As well as opening new perspectives in social neuroscience and psychology, this project will add theoretical and methodological expertise to my skill-set by providing the most suitable research environment for my career development, at the Moral and Social Brain Lab, in one of the top-ranking universities of Europe (Ghent University), under Prof. Emilie Caspar supervision.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
9000 Gent
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