Decoding moral judgement from text: a pilot study

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Main Authors: Gherman, Diana E., Zander, Thorsten O.
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author Gherman, Diana E.
Zander, Thorsten O.
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Zander, Thorsten O.
contents Moral judgement is a complex human reaction that engages cognitive and emotional dimensions. While some of the morality neural correlates are known, it is currently unclear if we can detect moral violation at a single-trial level. In a pilot study, here we explore the feasibility of moral judgement decoding from text stimuli with passive brain-computer interfaces. For effective moral judgement elicitation, we use video-audio affective priming prior to text stimuli presentation and attribute the text to moral agents. Our results show that further efforts are necessary to achieve reliable classification between moral congruency vs. incongruency states. We obtain good accuracy results for neutral vs. morally-charged trials. With this research, we try to pave the way towards neuroadaptive human-computer interaction and more human-compatible large language models (LLMs)
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spellingShingle Decoding moral judgement from text: a pilot study
Gherman, Diana E.
Zander, Thorsten O.
Neurons and Cognition
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
Moral judgement is a complex human reaction that engages cognitive and emotional dimensions. While some of the morality neural correlates are known, it is currently unclear if we can detect moral violation at a single-trial level. In a pilot study, here we explore the feasibility of moral judgement decoding from text stimuli with passive brain-computer interfaces. For effective moral judgement elicitation, we use video-audio affective priming prior to text stimuli presentation and attribute the text to moral agents. Our results show that further efforts are necessary to achieve reliable classification between moral congruency vs. incongruency states. We obtain good accuracy results for neutral vs. morally-charged trials. With this research, we try to pave the way towards neuroadaptive human-computer interaction and more human-compatible large language models (LLMs)
title Decoding moral judgement from text: a pilot study
topic Neurons and Cognition
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00039