Cold or calculating? Reduced activity in the subgenual cingulate cortex reflects decreased emotional aversion to harming in counterintuitive utilitarian judgment.

For counterintuitive utilitarian decisions, ‘need for cognition’ scores showed a clear trend towards a positive correlation with perceived difficulty ( r = 0.449, p = 0.05) while psychoticism ( r = 0.029, p = 0.46) was not significantly correlated with difficulty ratings.

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