(Video: Moral thinking and emotion: a challenging dilemma) When people are faced with moral dilemmas or inner conflict, brain scans indicate the ________ is active.

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Studies have shown that the anterior cingulate, a part of the brain involved in emotion regulation and cognitive control, is particularly active when individuals are faced with moral dilemmas or inner conflict. The other options - occipital lobe (A) is primarily responsible for processing visual information, sympathetic nervous system (C) is involved in the fight-or-flight response, and amygdala (D) is primarily associated with processing and regulating emotions, particularly fear. While all of these brain areas may play a role in moral thinking and emotion, the anterior cingulate is the most consistently identified region in research on this topic.

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