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Scientists Show that They Can Change People's Moral Judgments

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Scientists have shown they can alter your moral judgments just by disrupting a specific area of your brain with magnetic pulses.

A region of your brain just above and behind your right ear appears to control morality -- a bundle of nerve cells known as the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ).

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