The Psychopaths Among Us
By Danielle Egan Discover Robert Hare steps out of the sunlight and into a West Vancouver pub. “Let me see your eyes,” says the 82-year old, piercing me with a […]
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The Limits of Science
By Mikkel Krenchel & Christian Madsbjerg Foreign Affairs If you’ve ever listened to a TED Talk or read a popular science book about human behavior, chances are good that you’ve heard fascinating […]
Debate: What Neuroscience Has to Say About Free Will
By Adam Bear Scientific American In a classic paper published almost 20 years ago, the psychologists Dan Wegner and Thalia Wheatley made a revolutionary proposal: The experience of intentionally willing […]
Do We Have Free Will? Do We Need It?
By Stephen Cave The Atlantic For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing […]
The “Just Following Orders” Defense and the Brain
By Joshua Barajas PBS Newshour In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were “forced to serve as […]
Do Tasers Interfere With Your Ability to Understand Miranda Warnings?
By Nathan Collins Pacific Standard When you’re arrested by police and they read you your Miranda rights, you have two main options: You can keep quiet and demand a lawyer, […]
For People Raised in Chaos, Risk-Taking (and Law Breaking) is Hardwired
By Matthew Hutson Nautilus Robin Marvel was never supposed to succeed. By the time she was a teenager she’d watched her mother be violently beaten by her father and a […]
