When my wrongs are worse than yours: behavioral and neural asymmetries in first-person and third-person perspectives of accidents

Abstract

In this project, we explored how a person’s perspective ⁠— as either the actor or the observer ⁠— influences their moral judgments of accidental harm. We use fMRI to investigate how brain regions involved in the inference of intent and the perception of harm differentially respond when participants either cause (first-person) or observe (third-person) accidental harm