Chris at Mixing Memory, a blog with very many interesting articles, has this post about a new study conducted by Piercarlo Valdesolo and David DeSterno which implies that moral judgements are influenced by emotions.
This should only be surprising when subscribing to traditional “western” faculty psychology - a soul being in charge of the body, which reasons in an abstract reasoning space.
To adherents of the embodiment paradigm - that all our cognition depends on the structure of our bodies (at the chemical level, at the morphological level etc) - especially also on the specific structure and neural states of our brains - which are all, after all, embodied (hormones, neural transmitters, excitation levels of neuronal clusters) - this is a rather logical effect.
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