Noradrenaline effects on social behaviour, intergroup relations, and moral decisions

Highlights • The involvement of noradrenaline in moral and social judgments is reviewed.• Noradrenergic transmission is causally involved in implicit racial biases, racial face perception, as well as increasing social harm aversion.• Fear and anger – mediated by limbic circuit brain activation – might mediate moral and social decisions and acts.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

• Publication date

  2016-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.031PMID 27126289PMCID 4899514
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