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Description: The goal of the present study is to extend previous knowledge on the role of emotion in moral judgment by using event-related potentials and pupil dilation as indicators of the underlying intuitive responses towards morally associated faces. To this aim, we pair faces showing neutral expressions with morally positive, morally negative or neutral written scenarios where the person that is introduced through the face commits an act towards another person. In addition to explicit character judgments of the faces associated with moral scenarios, we will record ERPs and pupil size changes that will gain insight the neuro-cognitive and -affective mechanisms underlying moral judgments. Another aim is to investigate how political orientation, empathic capacity and gender influence moral character judgment, both on the physiological level as well as the explicit judgment.