Ethical decisions tied to brain's emotional centers

Maybe it's not surprising that we apparently react more with emotion than logic when deciding what we consider fair.

But a University of Illinois researcher and colleagues have now identified parts of the brain that come into play in such situations in a study designed to look at what goes on in our heads – literally – during moral decision making.

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