The neural correlates of moral decision-making in psychopathy

Neuroimaging studies have used classic moral dilemmas to identify the neural circuitry underlying moral decision-making in healthy individuals, but it is unknown how this circuit functions in immoral, psychopathic individuals. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we find that more psychopathic individuals showed reduced activity in the amygdala during emotional moral decision-making, with particularly conning and...