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Can Twitter make you amoral?

twitt-smHere’s another tweet amongst the growing Twitter posts pile: Rapid-fire media may confuse your moral compass!

Emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind, according to a new study from a neuroscience group led by corresponding author Antonio Damasio, director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.

The finding, contained in one of the first brain studies of inspirational emotions in a field dominated by a focus on fear and pain, suggests that digital media culture may be better suited to some mental processes than others. [continue reading…]