Scientists Have Discovered The Brain's "Moral Compass" . . . And It Can Be Manipulated With Magnets To Make You A Worse Person

In this month's issue of a journal called "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim to have discovered the brain's "moral compass."

--It's in an area called the right temporoparietal junction . . . just beneath the surface of the brain, behind the right ear . . . and it controls how we judge other people's behavior. But that's not all . . .

--According to the researchers, a person's morality center can be manipulated with powerful magnets, disrupting their normal brain activity and making them temporarily LESS MORAL.

--For example, in one study, test subjects were asked how they'd feel if a man allowed his girlfriend to cross a bridge he knew was unsafe. Normally, subjects rated the man's behavior as unacceptable.

--But after getting the magnetic pulse, they saw nothing wrong with the guy's behavior because the woman didn't get hurt.

--That was basically the study's main finding: After being subjected to the magnetic pulse, NOTHING was rated as morally unacceptable, as long as things ended well.

--A woman named Dr. Liane Young led the study. She says, quote, "You think of morality as being a really high-level behavior. To be able to apply a magnetic field to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing."

--In other words, no matter how good a person you think you are, your brain can be manipulated with just a few stupid magnets to make you a total jerk.