42 min.
#28 – Oriel FeldmanHall: Studying morality in the brain Epistimones
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Oriel FeldmanHall is the Alfred Manning Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistics and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Her research focuses on studying the neural basis of moral decision making, altruism, and socio-emotional decision making. Specifically, she uses techniques from different fields like behavioural economics, social psychology, imaging and psychophysiology to disentangle the cognitive and neural processes behind the complex choices that shape human social behaviour.
TIMESTAMPS
(00:45) – What is morality
(03:21) – Why do humans have morality
(08:40) – Neurobiology of moral decision making
(19:53) – Studying moral decision making
(32:36) – What is the right level of explanation
(33:58) – Engineering morality
(35:54) – Oriel’s journey in science
(41:08) – Advice for young scientists
Oriel FeldmanHall is the Alfred Manning Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistics and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Her research focuses on studying the neural basis of moral decision making, altruism, and socio-emotional decision making. Specifically, she uses techniques from different fields like behavioural economics, social psychology, imaging and psychophysiology to disentangle the cognitive and neural processes behind the complex choices that shape human social behaviour.
TIMESTAMPS
(00:45) – What is morality
(03:21) – Why do humans have morality
(08:40) – Neurobiology of moral decision making
(19:53) – Studying moral decision making
(32:36) – What is the right level of explanation
(33:58) – Engineering morality
(35:54) – Oriel’s journey in science
(41:08) – Advice for young scientists
42 min.