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SUMMARY:Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on cr
 iminal sentencing judgments - Karina Vold (Leverhulme Centre for the Futur
 e of Intelligence\, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20181031T130000Z
DTEND:20181031T143000Z
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:(Co-authored with Eyal Aharoni\, Corey Allen\, Jennifer Blumen
 thal-Barby and Gidon Felson)\n\nLegal theorists have characterized physica
 l evidence of brain dysfunction as a double-edged sword\, wherein the very
  quality that reduces the defendant's responsibility for his transgression
  could simultaneously increase motivations to punish him by virtue of his 
 apparently increased dangerousness. However\, empirical evidence of this p
 attern has been elusive\, perhaps owing to a heavy reliance on singular me
 asures that fail to distinguish between plural\, often competing internal 
 motivations for punishment. In this talk I will present a new study that e
 mployed a test of the theorized double-edge pattern using a novel approach
  designed to separate such motivations. This is the first study of its kin
 d to quantitatively demonstrate the paradoxical effect of neuroscientific 
 trial evidence and raises implications for how such evidence is presented 
 and evaluated.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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