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UCLA researchers found mirror neuron activity, which plays a vital role in feeling empathy, also predicts how individuals would act when facing a moral dilemma. (Daily Bruin file photo)

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UCLA researchers study moral decision-making through mirror neurons

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UCLA researchers found a way to study an individual’s neural activity to predict how they would act in a moral dilemma. In a study published last month, researchers at the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center observed that a person’s neural activity in response to witnessing another person in pain may indicate whether they would inflict harm if it led to a greater good, according to a press release.

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UCLA researchers study moral decision-making through mirror neurons

By Emi Nakahara

Jan. 8, 2018 11:28 p.m.