Emotion and morals

I read these a few days ago:

1. Brain Injury Said to Affect Moral Choices
2. How the Heart Can Rule the Head
3. Study: Brain split on morals
4. Kill One to Save Many? Brain Damage Makes Decision Easier


Some minor excerpts:

"I think it’s very convincing now that there are at least two systems working when we make moral judgments," said Joshua Greene, a psychologist at Harvard who was not involved in the study. "There’s an emotional system that depends on this specific part of the brain, and another system that performs more utilitarian cost-benefit analyses which in these people is clearly intact."

"Moral decision making is based on our emotional reaction to situations as much as it is to any kind of rational thought," says Mario Mendez, a neurologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "When [the former] is taken away, you have a Mr. Spock, who's just rational about decisions."

The studies in those articles distinctly reminded me of a visiting lecturer that was at KU not long ago. He was engaged in cross-disciplinary work between psychology and philosophy.

I actually still have the notes that I took from my laptop during that lecture:
5. "The Emotional Basis (Construction) of Morals"

In addition he has a sample paper on his website on the subject, titled "The Emotional Basis of Moral Judgment":
6. The Emotional Basis of Moral Judgment

...as well as a recently published book with a similar title. I've found an excerpt here:
7. The Emotional Construction of Morals

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It also appears that this blue-haired psycholophilosopholelogist has somewhat of an infatuation with drawing faces and homunculi. The drawings are actually quite good:
8. Heads