Gruseome Details Versus Evidence - The Brain Science Of Punishment Decisions
Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 22:40
in Psychology & Sociology
Issues of crime and punishment and vengeance and justice date back to time when people first gathered and in the last few years why people decide just punishment has captured the attention of psychologists and certainly defende attorneys. A brain imaging study in Nature Neuroscience says it can identify the brain mechanisms that underlie our judgment of how severely a person who has harmed another should be punished. Specifically, the study looked at how the area of the brain changes when an act was believed to be intentional or unintentional. They found that the imaging is different and unintentional acts trump the emotional urge to punish the person, however gruesome the harm may be. read more