The Hippocampus

The hippocampus is related to character judgments. An experiment was performed by Croft et al. (2010) to determine if people with hippocampal damage have difficulty judging character compared to people without brain damage. Two groups were tested: A control group in which no one had brain damage and a group in which people had hippocampal damage (anterograde amnesia). Participants were shown a picture of "Matt" on a certain background. Lets say the background was a forest. Then participants are asked to form a first impression of Matt. Next, they are asked to rate how morally good or bad they think Matt is. Typically, Matt will get good ratings because there is not a lot of information given about him. People may think he likes the environment