Here is an interesting case of how broad the influence of cognitive studies can be on our lives. In general terms, conventional wisdom holds that religion causes people to see the world in different ...

I'd be surprised if law school teaching methods (like the many variants of the "Socratic Method") get it right. But this post from Tom Stafford at Mind Hacks actually supplies some ammunition.

On Amir (Marketing, Rady School-UCSD) has written an article for Scientific American. The article summarizes research on how we deplete cognitive resources when we make choices and how this affects ...

Rita Rubin has written the cover story in today's USA Today "Life" section. The article discusses physician use of placebos to treat patients. I've blogged about the topic before, so I'll just tell ...

The CBC radio program, Ideas, is running a 5-part series on memory this week entitled, "The Once and Future Past" (see here). I was interviewed for the series (over a year ago), so I suspect that I'll ...

The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University is hosting a conference entitled, "The Law and Ethics of Brain Scanning" on Friday, April 13th. Here's a link for registration and ...

Jane Mitchell, (Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School) has published "Incarceration Reimagined: A Diversionary Option for Serious Felony Offenders" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In ...

Columbus School of Law) have published "Rethinking Children, Crime and Culpability" Email: [email protected] In the early twenty-first century, the United States Supreme Court developed a rich body of ...

Paul H. Robinson (University of Pennsylvania), Jeffrey Seaman (University of Pennsylvania), and Muhammad Sarahne (University of Pennsylvania) have published "Confronting Failures of Justice: Getting ...

Owen D. Jones (Vanderbilt University), Jeffrey D. Schall (York University), Francis X. Shen (University of Minnesota Law School), Morris B. Hoffman (Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of ...

This study investigates the comprehensive effects including dynamic, time, and group effects of legalizing recreational marijuana on crime rates, focusing on states that enacted such legislation in ...

Raff Donelson (Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology) has published "Forbidden Purposes" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Activists and scholars have often complained that the ...