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Parsing the Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Third-Party Punishment
(The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016)
The evolved capacity for third-party punishment is considered crucial to the emergence and maintenance of elaborate human social organization and is central to the modern provision of fairness and justice within society. ...
The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment
(Neuron, 2008-12)
This article reports the discovery, from the first full-scale law and neuroscience experiment, of the brain activity underlying punishment decisions.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain ...
Sorting Guilty Minds
(New York University Law Review, 2011)
Because punishable guilt requires that bad thoughts accompany bad acts, the Model Penal Code (MPC) typically requires that jurors infer the past mental state of a criminal defendant. More specifically, jurors must sort ...