We thought our readers be interested in an article by Eduardo
Salcedo-Albarán, Isaac De León-Beltrán, and Mauricio Rubio’s,
titled “Feelings, Brain and Prevention of Corruption“ (3
International Journal of Psychology Research 2008) now available
on SSRN. * * * In this paper we propose an answer for the
question: why, sometimes, people don’t perceive corruption as a
crime? To answer this question we use a neurological and a
psychological concept. As humans, we experience our emotions and
feelings in first person, but the neuropsychological mechanism
known as “mirror neurons” makes possible to simulate emotions
and feelings of others. It means that our emotions and feelings
are linked with emotions and feelings of others. When mirror
areas in the brain are activated we can understand and simulate
in first person the actions, emotions and feelings of people.
Because of these areas, the observer’s brain acts “as if” it was
experiencing the same action or the same feeling that is
perceived. Each organism establish