About us

THE MORAL BRAIN is an interdisciplinary research community that unites Belgian and Dutch researchers who study moral and immoral behavior, moral emotions and the development of ethical judgments from a neuroscientific and evolutionary perspective. Besides doing research inspired by contemporary insights gained from the neurosciences and evolutionary psychology and anthropology, THE MORAL BRAIN highlights current developments and innovative insights in international research.

[Scanning and the Moral Brain]

[The Moral Brain on TV]

"Why humans do not make good vampires" (De Smet, Van Speybroeck & Verplaetse) is now published. see pdf