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Feeling right about doing right

Reason and emotion come into conflict in making all kinds of judgements. Results of work with brain-damaged patients constitute one line of evidence that the emotional component is not to be dismissed.

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Talmi, D., Frith, C. Feeling right about doing right. Nature 446, 865–866 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/446865a

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