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The Ecumenical Institute is participating with two sub-projects in the newly established SFB 1671 “Heimat(en): Phänomene, Praktiken, Darstellungen”
With the sub-projects A06 „(Nicht) Zuhause in der Welt? – Implizite Modellierungen von Heimat(en) im Protestantisch-Theologischen Diskurs des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts“ (PIs: Dr. Arne Bachmann, Dr. Patrick Ebert) and C03 „Geistliche und himmlische Heimat im darstellenden Handeln christlicher Konfessionskulturen“ (PI: Prof. Dr. Friederike Nüssel) the Ecumenical Institute is represented in two projects of the newly established SFB 1671 „Heimat(en): Phänomene, Praktiken, Darstellungen“ vertreten.
Recent publications
Kai Ueltzhöffer | Corinna Roth | Corinne Neukel | Katja Bertsch | Friederike Nüssel | Sabine C. Herpertz, Do I care for you or for me?
Protected moral values facilitate empathic concern for others, who are exposed to an existential threat, so that one spontaneously helps without taking into account utilitarian cost-benefit considerations. Subjects scoring high on the “Dark Triad” machiavellism, psychopathy, and narcissism are prone to ignore such appeals for selfless help. In this pilot study 25 healthy subjects with high and 27 with low Dark Triad scores participated in this functional magnetic resonance imaging study. We used a script-driven imagery paradigm to directly contrast requests for selfless help appealing to protected versus non-protected, negotiable moral values.
