Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

An Examination of Accurate Versus “Biased” Mentalizing in Moral and Economic Decision-Making

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
The Neural Basis of Mentalizing

Abstract

In this chapter, we review evidence that supports the engagement of mentalizing for optimal and suboptimal decision-making associated with social and/or non-social rewards. Mentalizing can support optimal decisions in the contexts of moral judgment and social interaction. However, mentalizing can also be influenced by apparently irrelevant factors, including agents’ moral history and group status. We suggest that, while these factors can “bias” mentalizing, resulting in suboptimal decisions, some seemingly biased decisions may in fact be procedurally rational. For example, when people discount new negative evidence about someone they have a strong positive impression of, they may nevertheless be engaging in procedurally rational Bayesian updating. We suggest that Bayesian-rational updating involves generating ad hoc auxiliary hypotheses to explain away inconsistent evidence, which may be supported by mentalizing-related neural activity.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    Other work has focused not on the inference of mental states but the inference of moral traits, including generosity. In one study, trait generosity (i.e., proportion of money an agent offered) was encoded separately from total reward provided by the agent, in the rTPJ (Hackel et al., 2015). Partner choice decisions relied primarily on trait generosity.

  2. 2.

    However, another body of research failed to find that repeated interaction with partners necessarily involves mentalizing. These studies focused on the involvement of the reward-processing circuitry, or interpreted activity of regions that constitute both mentalizing and reward valuation networks (e.g., MPFC) in the light of reward computation. See Delgado, Frank, and Phelps (2005), Fareri et al. (2015), Izuma, Saito, and Sadato (2008), King-Casas et al. (2005), and Phan, Sripada, Angstadt, and McCabe (2010), as examples.

  3. 3.

    Here we focus on procedural rationality, which may produce either accurate or inaccurate judgment. By contrast, see Cushman, 2020, for a theoretical account of how people ultimately benefit from rationalization.

  4. 4.

    We also note that procedural rationality is orthogonal to the source of the prior belief: both priors that are evidence-based and priors that are derived largely from socio-affective value (e.g., positive beliefs about the ingroup in minimal group contexts) can undergo Bayesian processing.

References

  • Amodio, D. M., & Frith, C. D. (2006). Meeting of minds: The medial frontal cortex and social cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7, 268–277.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Baron, S. G., Gobbini, M. I., Engell, A. D., & Todorov, A. (2011). Amygdala and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex responses to appearance-based and behavior-based person impressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(5), 572–581.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Baumgartner, T., Götte, L., Gügler, R., & Fehr, E. (2012). The mentalizing network orchestrates the impact of parochial altruism on social norm enforcement. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 1452–1469.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Baumgartner, T., Schiller, B., Rieskamp, J., Gianotti, L. R. R., & Knoch, D. (2014). Diminishing parochialism in intergroup conflict by disrupting the right temporo-parietal junction. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(5), 653–660.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Behrens, T. K. J., Hunt, L. T., Woolrich, M. W., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2008). Associative learning of social value. Nature, 456, 245–249.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Bhatt, M. A., Lohrenz, T., Camerer, C. F., & Montague, R. (2010). Neural signatures of strategic types in a two-person bargaining game. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America, 107(46), 19720–19725.

    Google Scholar 

  • Boorman, E. D., O’Doherty, J. P., Adolphs, R., & Rangel, A. (2013). The behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying the tracking of expertise. Neuron, 80, 1558–1571.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Brambilla, M., Carraro, L., Castelli, L., & Sacchi, S. (2019). Changing impressions: Moral character dominates impression updating. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 82, 64–73.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bruguier, A. J., Quartz, S. R., & Bossaerts, P. (2010). Exploring the nature of “trader intuition”. The Journal of Finance, 65(5), 1703–1723.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cao, J., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Banaji, M. R. (2019). People make the same Bayesian judgment they criticize in others. Psychological Science, 30(1), 20–31.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Coricelli, G., & Nagel, R. (2009). Neural correlates of depth of strategic reasoning in medial prefrontal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America, 106(23), 9163–9168.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cushman, F. A., Sheketoff, R., Wharton, S., & Carey, S. (2013). The development of intent-based moral judgment. Cognition, 127(1), 6–21.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Cushman, F. (2020). Rationalization is rational. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43.

    Google Scholar 

  • De Martino, B., O’Doherty, J. P., Ray, D., Bossaerts, P., & Camerer, C. (2013). In the mind of the market: Theory of mind biases value computation during financial bubbles. Neuron, 79, 1222–1231.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Decety, J., & Cacioppo, S. (2012). The speed of morality: A high-density electrical neuroimaging study. Journal of Neurophysiology, 108, 3068–3072.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Delgado, M. R., Frank, R. H., & Phelps, E. A. (2005). Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game. Nature Neuroscience, 8(11), 1611–1618.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Diaconescu, A. O., Mathys, C., Weber, L. A. E., Daunizeau, J., Kasper, L., Lomakina, E. I., … Stephan, K. E. (2014). Inferring on the intentions of others by hierarchical Bayesian learning. PLoS Computational Biology, 10, e1003810. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003810

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Ditto, P. H., Pizarro, D. A., & Tannenbaum, D. (2009). Motivated moral reasoning. In D. M. Bartels, C. W. Bauman, L. J. Skitka, & D. Burlington (Eds.), The psychology of learning and motivation. Burlington, Canada: Academic Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Evans, S., Fleming, S., Dolan, R. J., & Averbeck, B. B. (2011). Effects of emotional preferences on value-based decision-making are mediated by mentalizing and not reward networks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(9), 2197–2210.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Fareri, D. S., Chang, L. J., & Delgado, M. (2012). Effects of direct social experience on trust decisions and neural reward circuitry. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 6, 148.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Fareri, D. S., Chang, L. J., & Delgado, M. (2015). Computational substrates of social value in interpersonal collaboration. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(21), 8170–8180.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Fischle, M. (2000). Mass response to the Lewinsky scandal: Motivated reasoning or Bayesian updating? Political Psychology, 21(1), 135–159.

    Google Scholar 

  • Frith, C. D., & Frith, U. (2006). The neural basis of mentalizing. Neuron, 50, 531–534.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gershman, S. J. (2019). How to never be wrong. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, 13. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1488-8

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Goodwin, G. P. (2015). Moral character in person perception. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(1), 38–44.

    Google Scholar 

  • Güroğlu, B., van den Bos, W., Rombouts, S. A. R. B., & Crone, E. A. (2010). Unfair? It depends: Neural correlates of fairness in social context. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5(4), 414–423.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Gweon, H., Dodell-Feder, D., Bedny, M., & Saxe, R. (2012). Theory of mind performance in children correlates with functional specialization of a brain region for thinking about thoughts. Child Development., 83, 1853–1868.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hackel, L. M., & Amodio, D. M. (2018). Computational neuroscience approaches to social cognition. Current Opinion in Psychology, 24, 92–97.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hackel, L. M., Doll, B. B., & Amodio, D. M. (2015). Instrumental learning of traits versus rewards: Dissociable neural correlates and effects on choice. Nature Neuroscience, 18(9), 1233–1235.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hahn, U., & Harris, A. J. L. (2014). What does it mean to be biased: Motivated reasoning and rationality. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of learning and motivation. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hájek, A. (2008). Dutch book arguments. In P. Anand, P. Pattanaik, & C. Puppe (Eds.), The handbook of rational and social choice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hampton, A. N., Bossaerts, P., & O’Doherty, J. P. (2008). Neural correlates of mentalizing-related computations during strategic interactions in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America, 105(18), 6741–6746.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hare, T., Camerer, C. F., Knoepfle, D. T., O’Doherty, J. P., & Rangel, A. (2010). Value computations in ventral medial prefrontal cortex during charitable decision making incorporate input from regions involved in social cognition. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(2), 583–590.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Harvey, N., & Fischer, I. (1997). Taking advice: Accepting help, improving judgment, and sharing responsibility. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 70(2), 117–133.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hill, C. A., Suzuki, S., Polania, R., Moisa, M., O’Doherty, J. P., & Ruff, C. C. (2017). A causal account of the brain network computations underlying strategic social behavior. Nature Neuroscience, 20, 1142–1149.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hill, S. J. (2017). Learning together slowly: Bayesian learning about political facts. The Journal of Politics, 79(4), 1403–1418.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hughes, B. L., Zaki, J., & Ambady, N. (2017). Motivation alters impression formation and related neural systems. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(1), 49–60.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D. A., & Cushman, F. (2012). Benefiting from misfortune: When harmless actions are judged to be morally blameworthy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(1), 52–62.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Izuma, K., Saito, D. N., & Sadato, N. (2008). Processing of social and monetary rewards in the human striatum. Neuron, 58, 284–294.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Killen, M., Mulvey, K. L., Richardson, C., Jampol, N., & Woodward, A. (2011). The accidental transgressor: Morally-relevant theory of mind. Cognition, 119, 197–215.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • King-Casas, B., Tomlin, D., Anen, C., Camerer, C. F., Quartz, S. R., & Montague, P. R. (2005). Getting to know you: Reputation and trust in a two-person economic exchange. Science, 308(5718), 78–83.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kleiman-Weiner, M., Gerstenberg, T., Levine, S., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2015). Inference of intention and permissibility in moral decision making. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kliemann, D., Young, L., Scholz, J., & Saxe, R. (2008). The influence of prior record on moral judgment. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2949–2957.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Klucharev, V., Smidts, A., & Fernández, G. (2008). Brain mechanisms of persuasion: How ‘expert power’ modulates memory and attitudes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3(4), 353–366.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Knobe, J. (2003). Intentional action and side-effects in ordinary language. Analysis, 63, 190–193.

    Google Scholar 

  • Koster-Hale, J., & Saxe, R. (2013). Theory of mind: A neural prediction problem. Neuron, 79, 836–848.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Koster-Hale, J., Saxe, R., Dungan, J., & Young, L. (2013). Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America, 110(14), 5648–5653.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krueger, F., Grafman, J., & McCabe, K. (2008). Neural correlates of economic game playing. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society, 363, 3859–3874.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krueger, F., McCabe, K., Moll, J., Kriegeskorte, N., Zahn, R., Strenziok, M., … Grafman, J. (2007). Neural correlates of trust. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America, 104(50), 20084–20089.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lakatos, I. (1976). Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In S. G. Harding (Ed.), Can theories be refuted? (pp. 205–259). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lee, D. (2006). Neural basis of quasi-rational decision making. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16(2), 191–198.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Leong, Y. C., & Zaki, J. (2017). Unrealistic optimism in advice taking: A computational account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(2), 170.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lombardo, M. V., Chakrabarti, B., Bullmore, E. T., Wheelright, S. J., Sadek, S. A., Suckling, J., … Baron-Cohen, S. (2009). Shared neural circuits for mentalizing about the self and others. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(7), 1623–1635.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mende-Siedlecki, P., Baron, S. G., & Todorov, A. (2013). Diagnostic value underlies asymmetric updating of impressions in the morality and ability domains. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(50), 19406–19415.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Mende-Siedlecki, P., Cai, Y., & Todorov, A. (2013). The neural dynamics of updating person impressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(6), 623–631.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mende-Siedlecki, P., & Todorov, A. (2016). Neural dissociations between meaningful and mere inconsistency in impression updating. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(9), 1489–1500.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Mengotii, P., Dombert, P. L., Fink, G. R., & Vossel, S. (2017). Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction impairs probabilistic belief updating. The Journal of Neuroscience, 37(22), 5419–5428.

    Google Scholar 

  • Molenberghs, P., Johnson, H., Henry, J. D., & Mattingley, J. B. (2016). Understanding the minds of others: A neuroimaging meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 65, 276–291.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Monroe, A. E., & Malle, B. F. (2019). People systematically update moral judgments of blame. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(2), 215–236.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Park, B., Fareri, D. S., Delgado, M. R., & Young, L. (2019). How theory-of-mind brain regions process prediction error across relationship contexts (manuscript in preparation).

    Google Scholar 

  • Park, B., & Young, L. (2020). An association between biased impression updating and relationship facilitation: A behavioral and fMRI investigation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 87, 103916.

    Google Scholar 

  • Phan, K. L., Sripada, C. S., Angstadt, M., & McCabe, K. (2010). Reputation for reciprocity engages the brain reward center. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America, 107(29), 13099–13104.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pizarro, D., Uhlmann, E., & Salovey, P. (2003). Asymmetry in judgments of moral blame andpraise: The role of perceived metadesires. Psychological Science, 14(3), 267–272.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pizarro, D. A., Uhlmann, E., & Bloom, P. (2003). Causal deviance and the attribution of moral responsibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 653–660.

    Google Scholar 

  • Park, B., Fareri, D., Delgado, M., & Young, L. (2020). The role of right temporoparietal junction in processing social prediction error across relationship contexts. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsaa072. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa072

  • Richardson, H., Lisandrelli, G., Riobueno-Naylor, A., & Saxe, R. (2018). Development of the social brain from age three to twelve years. Nature Communications, 9, 1027. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03399-2

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Rilling, J. K., Dagenais, J. E., Goldsmith, D. R., Glenn, A. L., & Pagnoni, G. (2008). Social cognitive neural networks during in-group and out-group interactions. NeuroImage, 41, 1447–1461.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Saxe, R. (2009). Theory of mind (neural basis). In W. Banks (Ed.), Encyclopedia of consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Saxe, R., Carey, S., & Kanwisher, N. (2004). Understanding other minds: Linking developmental psychology and functional neuroimaging. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 87–124.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Saxe, R., & Kanwisher, N. (2003). People thinking about thinking people: The role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”. Neuroimaging, 19, 1835–1842.

    Google Scholar 

  • Saxe, R., & Powell, L. J. (2006). It’s the thought that counts: Specific brain regions for one component of theory of mind. Psychological Science, 17(8), 692–699.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Saxe, R., & Wexler, A. (2005). Making sense of another mind: The role of the right temporo-parietal junction. Neuropsychologia, 43(10), 1391–1399.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Saxe, R., Xiao, D. K., Kovacs, G., Perrett, D. I., & Kanwisher, N. (2004). A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1435–1446.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schilbach, L., Eickhoff, S. B., Schultze, T., Mojzisch, A., & Vogeley, K. (2013). To you I am listening: Perceived competence of advisors influences judgment and decision-making via recruitment of the amygdala. Social Neuroscience, 8(3), 189–202.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Sellaro, R., Güroğlu, B., Nitsche, M. A., van den Wildenberg, W. P. M., Massaro, V., Durieux, J., … Colzato, L. S. (2015). Increasing the role of belief information in moral judgments by stimulating the right temporoparietal junction. Neuropsychologia, 77, 400–408.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Singer, T., & Fehr, E. (2005). The neuroeconomics of mind reading and empathy. American Economic Review, 95(2), 340–345.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Strang, S., Utikal, V., Fischbacher, U., Weber, B., & Falk, A. (2014). Neural correlates of receiving an apology and active forgiveness: An fMRI study. PLoS One, 9, e87654. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087654

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Tannenbaum, D., Ditto, P. H. & Pizarro, D. A. (2008). Different moral values produce different judgments of intentional action. Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thornton, M. A., & Mitchell, J. P. (2018). Theories of person perception predict patterns of neural activity during mentalizing. Cerebral Cortex, 28, 3505–3520.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Treadway, M. T., Buckholtz, J. W., Martin, J. W., Jan, K., Asplund, C. L., Ginther, M. R., … Marois, R. (2014). Corticolimbic gating of emotion-driven punishment. Nature Neuroscience, 17(9), 1270–1275.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Van Swol, L. M. (2009). The effects of confidence and advisor motives on advice utilization. Communication Research, 36(6), 857–873.

    Google Scholar 

  • Walter, H., Adenzato, M., Ciaramidaro, A., Enrici, I., Pia, L., & Bara, B. G. (2004). Understanding intentions in social interaction: The role of the anterior paracingulate cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(10), 1854–1863.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Will, G.-J., Crone, E. A., & Güroğlu, B. (2015). Acting on social exclusion: Neural correlates of punishment and forgiveness of excluders. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(2), 209–218.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Woolfolk, R. L., Doris, J. M., & Darley, J. M. (2006). Identification, situational constraint, and social cognition: Studies in the attribution of moral responsibility. Cognition, 100, 283–301.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Yamada, M., Camerer, C. F., Fujie, S., Kato, M., Matsuda, T., Takano, H., … Takahashi, H. (2012). Neural circuits in the brain that are activated when mitigating criminal sentences. Nature Communications, 3, 759. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1757

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Yaniv, I., & Kleinberger, E. (2000). Advice taking in decision making: Egocentric discounting and reputation formation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 83(2), 260–281.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Young, L., Camprodon, J. A., Hauser, M., Pascual-Leone, A., & Saxe, R. (2010). Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America, 107(15), 6753–6758.

    Google Scholar 

  • Young, L., Cushman, F., Hauser, M., & Saxe, R. (2007). The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America, 104(20), 8235–8240.

    Google Scholar 

  • Young, L., Nichols, S., & Saxe, R. (2010). Investigating the neural and cognitive basis of moral luck: It’s not what you do but what you know. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1, 333–349.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Young, L., & Saxe, R. (2009). An fMRI investigation of spontaneous mental state inference for moral judgment. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(7), 1396–1405.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Young, L., Scholz, J., & Saxe, R. (2011). Neural evidence for “intuitive prosecution”: The use of mental state information for negative moral verdicts. Social Neuroscience, 6(3), 302–315.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

We thank Josh Hirschfeld-Kroen, Emma Alai, and Simon Karg for their thoughtful feedback, and the John Templeton Foundation for support.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

    BoKyung Park, Minjae Kim & Liane Young

Authors
  1. BoKyung Park
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Minjae Kim
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Liane Young
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to BoKyung Park or Minjae Kim .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Psychology Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Michael Gilead

  2. Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Kevin N. Ochsner

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Park, B., Kim, M., Young, L. (2021). An Examination of Accurate Versus “Biased” Mentalizing in Moral and Economic Decision-Making. In: Gilead, M., Ochsner, K.N. (eds) The Neural Basis of Mentalizing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51890-5_27

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation