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The Situation of Punishment
Mary R. Rose and Janice Nadler have a nice paper, “Victim Impact Testimony and the Psychology of Punishment” available for downloading on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * A growing body of empirical...
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The Situation of Punishment (and Forgiveness)
Benedict Carey had an interesting piece last week in the New York Times, titled “Citizen Enforcers Take Aim.” Here are some excerpts. * * * The public urge for punishment that helped delay the passage...
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John Darley on “Justice as Intuitions”– Video
At the 2007 Project on Law and Mind Sciences Conference, John Darley’s talk was titled “Justice as Intuitions.” Here is the abstract for his talk. When a person receives a description of an...
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The Situation of Punishment in Schools
Marc Fisher of the Washington Post has an intersting piece on recent research by Colgate University social psychologist Kevin Carlsmith. We excerpt the piece piece below. * * * Colgate University...
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The Situation of Cooperation
From The National Science Foundation: Humans are incredibly cooperative, but why do people cooperate and how is cooperation maintained? A new research study by UCLA anthropology professor Robert Boyd...
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Intuitions of Punishment?
Owen Jones and Robert Kurzban recently posted their paper, “Intuitions of Punishment” (forthcmoing in the University of Chicago Law Review) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * Recent work reveals,...
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Fiery Cushman at Harvard law School – Video
From The Harvard Law Record (Sept. 2009): On September 21st, Fiery Cushman, a newly-minted PhD recipient and post-doctoral fellow at Harvard’s Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative, presented some of his...
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Talk on the Situation of Retribution
Title: “Punishing Jaws: Experiments on Retribution Against Nonhuman Perpetrators” When: Today – April 1st, at 12PM Where: Griswold 110, Harvard Law School Who: Situationist Contributor and Drexel...
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