Soft on crime: patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage allocate reduced third-party punishment to violent criminals - Asp EW, Gullickson JT, Warner KA, Koscik TR, Denburg NL, Tranel D.

The human impulse to punish those who have unjustly harmed others (i.e., third-party punishment) is critical for stable, cooperative societies. Punishment selection is influenced by both harm outcome and the intent of the moral agent (i.e., the offender's ...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news