{"id":1539,"date":"2010-03-29T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2010-03-29T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:06:12","slug":"pass-the-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/pass-the-magnet\/","title":{"rendered":"pass the magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think morality is one of life&#8217;s immutable Truths? Think again &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=125304448\">&#8220;A person&#8217;s moral judgments can be changed almost instantly by delivering a magnetic pulse to an area of the brain near the right ear, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.&#8221;<\/a> (<em>NPR<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>It gets funkier. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that scientists can adjust morality with a magnet may be disconcerting to people who view morality as a lofty and immutable human trait&#8230;.&#8221; Or so says Joshua Greene, a Harvard University shrink. &#8220;Moral judgment is just a brain process,&#8221; says Monsieur Greene. &#8220;That&#8217;s precisely why it&#8217;s possible for these researchers to influence it using electromagnetic pulses on the surface of the brain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story (no pun)? Next time you do something seriously tacky, zap your right ear with a burst of electromagnetic juice and feel good about yourself. No more need for those pesky Sunday confessions!<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think morality is one of life&#8217;s immutable Truths? Think again &#8211; &#8220;A person&#8217;s moral judgments can be changed almost instantly by delivering a magnetic pulse to an area of the brain near the right ear, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.&#8221; (NPR) It gets funkier. &#8220;The fact that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}