People who have a higher level of awareness of body cues are more likely to make moral decisions similar to those others might make — perhaps as a survival mechanism, a new study suggests. (Image credit: ArtMarie/Getty Images)
New research shows that when faced with a moral dilemma, an individual can come to a decision not only by analyzing the situation, but also by paying attention to physical cues from their body.
The study found that people who are more responsive to signals from their bodies, such as changes in heart rate, tend to make moral decisions that are consistent with the judgments that most others would make in similar circumstances. These findings suggest that such internal physical cues can influence a person’s moral intuition, the study’s authors say.
“Morality is often viewed as a result of cultural and contextual factors,” Tamami Nakano, a cognitive neuroscientist at Osaka University who was not involved in the study, told Live Science in an email. “Showing that bodily cues actively influence this tuning is both novel and compelling.”
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