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Jack comments on Marsh et al. "Serotonin Transporter Genotype (5-HTTLPR) Predicts Utilitarian Moral Judgments" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jack 07 October 2011 08:52:45AM *  2 points [-]

Marsh's primary field is actually psychopathy research. You can see her lab's cv here a lot of the papers are there too, all PDFs though. A number of their paper's deal with the same genotype, the most obviously relevant one to your concern is a finding that s-carries experience fear-recognition impairment following tryptophan depletion. A google search for the 5-HTTLPR and psychopathy returns a mixed bag- it looks like the short allele might be a risk factor for ASPD which correlates with the psychopathy checklist. But it looks like there is a gene-environment interaction happening.

Depressingly, someone may have actually tested more directly for a correlation and it just got buried as a negative result.