The influence of the brain in dispositional factors

Question 1

What did researchers find?

Answer 1

• Brain differences have effect on personality

Question 2

What did Anderson find?

Answer 2

• People w damaged PFC could not tell difference between right and wrong and they showed personality traits similar to that of psychopaths
• Young and Dungan reported that PFC is activated when we evaluate the emotional aspects of a moral decision
  Damage to this part ( PFC ) is associated with a lack of empathy.

Question 3

Amygdala

Answer 3

• This is the moral centre of the brain. Its used in making moral judgement
• Research has shown that lower levels of moral decisioning leads to more anti - social behaviour.

Question 4

What did Argokin ( 2014) find?

Answer 4

• A positive correlation between grey matter in the hippocampus and self- esteem. People w less grey matter, in the hippocampus tend to have low self esteem. (Vice versa)