"Results – which are published in the journal NeuroImage – revealed that the parts of the brain that enable us to feel empathy and guilt showed diminished activity when agents were ordered to act. As a consequence, agents were less able to identify with the pain experienced by victims when delivering an electric shock under orders.
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All in all, the researchers say that these alterations in brain activity explain how “obeying an order relaxes our aversion against harming others,” thereby revealing “how people's willingness to perform moral transgressions is altered in coerced situations.”"
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